Appraising and Developing the Effectiveness of Boards and their Directors

Institute of Directors, Good Practice for Directors - Standards for the Board, March, 1995.

The Cadbury Committee: The Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, December 1992.

Institute of Directors, March, 1995, op cit.

Dulewicz V. , and Herbert P. ‘Personality, Competences, Leadership Style and Managerial Effectiveness, Henley Working Paper 14/92. Henley Management College, 1992; Dulewicz, V. , ‘Personal Competences, personality and responsibilities of middle-managers’, Journal of Competency, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1994.

Institute of Directors, March, 1995, op cit.

For details on the Assessment Centre method, see: Woodruffe, C. , Assessment Centres: identifying and developing competence, London: Institute of Personnel and Development, 1990; For a short article see: Dulewicz, V. , The application of Assessment Centres, Personnel Management, September, 1982.

Dulewicz V. ‘Identifying Personal Competences for the Selection, Appraisal and Development of Directors’, in The Director's Manual, London: Director Books, 1995.

This range of board behaviours and styles may be seen to parallel in concept the ‘parenting styles’, covered in Goold, M. , Campbell, A. & Alexander, M. , Corporate-Level Strategy, London: Wiley, 1994.