Homeserve's Board Of Directors (NED)

1. Member Board of Directors – Each Director serves for three-year terms and may be reelected. There are 21 members currently serving on the Board.

when we have to support an individuals to live at home though in house supported living by mencap, this can benefit individual service users because support can helps promote and encouraging them to be more independence. The service users gain a greater sense of normality, they will have more time to spent with loved ones or more likely to get visits from friends and family, they will be able to maintain a little more control and choice over daily routines. the individual service users can be surrounded by there own

Legislative and regulatory demands on group living services are intended to ensure that the provision of daily living activities takes

Having worked for a large public company for a number of years, I feel we could take on many of their operating procedures to increase profit and market share. Firstly, I will begin with a comparison of public, private and voluntary companies in the housing sector.

All staff should in the residential home should receive safeguarding training, the employer should receive induction training, staff should be able identify inappropriate

Common stockholders are the basic owners of a corporation, but few stockholders of large corporations take an active role in management. Instead, they elect the corporation’s board of directors to represent their interests. Board members seldom get involved in the day-to-day management of the company. They establish the basic mission and goals of the corporation and appoint

Because the Board of Directors only meets four times a year, the day-to-day operations are managed by a Chief Executive Officer. The CEO has appointed five Chiefs as his

To ensure that the company thrives and overcomes the crisis that may come on the way, the company has various strategies and ways to overcome that and to keep the company on the track which includes constitution and board of directors which has various roles and responsibilities. The company has got a constitution and also corporations’ act. The companies’ values are the trust, integrity and honesty. The board carries out the duties in regard to the interest of the companies’

It is essential that the role, duties and responsibilities of directors are clearly defined. The Combined Code (2006) states that “the board’s role is to provide entrepreneurial leadership of the company within a framework of prudent and effective controls which enables risk to be assessed and managed”.

Canadian Home Care Association, “Home Care 2020: A Vision of Health, Independence & Dignity,” available at

I work at the age care and disability service of the ACT in Canberra. Firstly, in the ACT age care service, the setting of its organisation mission is mainly focus on the quality of service deliver to elderly people. These services are ranging from quality caring, healthy eating, quality beddings, quality delivering of medications and healthy environment with quality cooling and warm systems that have been installed in the organisation facility. Its location is quite good for the residents and employees to come to work on time, and size is worthy to continuing in receiving funds from the government. It population is reasonable to be manage by both private and government. ACT Disability service, is a multifaceted area of social strategy, both because of its size, diversity of the target population and the variety of individuals, organisations and governments involved in service provision. Frequent major strategy changes over the last two years have added to the difficulty of determining who is responsible for what, and with what consequences this could bring. ACT Disability services, operate in home care, and facility care all these facilities have installed cooling and warming environment most appropriate for those having disability. Its purpose is to ensure that disability is not inability for those individuals these services are provide. Thus what the

Joshua Kennon (2007), stated that “The board of directors is the highest governing authority within the management structure at any publicly traded company and is usually made up of the directors who are elected for a specific number of years by the shareholders”. According to Wikipedia,” A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization”.

As explained previously by Lipman (2007) board sizes should vary between no less than four directors or greater than ten. As outlined on Qantas.com.au (2015) Board of Directors are currently made up of nine members and in February 2015 will become ten members of which 9 will be INED and the CEO.

The Housing Development Board wanted to improve its services in three major areas including the involvement of private developers, public outreach, and overall improved customer service (Jick & Peiperl, 2011). The change challenge for HDB and Tan included improvement to the overall operations of the organization including work processes and systems. “The goal of the public outreach was to gain greater public buy-in and support while improving focus groups, particularly grassroots organization” (Jick & Pieperl, 2011, p. 432). Thus, the Estate Administration and Property Department was expected to manage majority of the operations including housing policies, pricing, and sales to name a few. Challenges faced were work process and systems that needed modifications through clear operational strategies.

There is extensive research on board composition and the importance it places on different aspects of organisation performance. (Kang H, et al 2007).