The Coming Revolution And Corporate Governance

Forsaken by her best friend and left to suffer the consequences. This is the situation that is present in “Lysandra’s Poem” by Wilson Budge. Lysandra herself faces this scenario after her best friend, Elaine, deceives her. Elaine has not only allowed Lysandra to be bullied by other students, she also uses cynical methods to ensure she is at an advantage for the poetry contest. As well Elaine has manipulated Lysandra. For these reasons Lysanda is justified for her actions.

Quite frankly, GM has had an onslaught of problems over the past decade. From the plummeting stock shares that ultimately led to the filing of bankruptcy to the faulty ignition switch recall debacle, it is no secret that the GM name has taken some big hits in recent memory. Plateaued sales, declining

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New vision and strategy. After 2008 bailout, GM has encountered real changes and rearranged the way it works together. New individuals were named to the company 's administration group with Daniel Akerson as the CEO. He shook GM 's bureaucratic authoritative culture and acquainted new methodology and dreams with the business. GM got to be littler yet leaner and is turning out to be more cost focused.

Understanding where the conflict or mistakes within this company began was not easy to identify. GMC was designed to do one thing better than everyone else, which was to build and sell cars and trucks. The Company did this from the beginning of the twentieth century as well or better than any other competitors. It wasn’t until 1990 that anything resembling real trouble presented itself as pause for concern affecting the Company’s bottom line. From the GM website, in 1990 the Company manufactured an all electric car called the E1 that was scrapped and consequently cost the Company 500 million dollars.

Corporate governance is based largely on trust – the trust, by the stakeholders, that revenues will be fairly shared, and that those directly involved in running the company are running it in an aboveboard, honest, and open manner, and that they represent the best

General Motors is an American multinational organization that headquartered in Michigan and make all types of vehicles. After reading the article, The GM Culture Crisis: What leaders must learn from this culture case study, we can say that General Motors or GM, has a dysfunctional company culture (Kuppler, & Kuppler, 2017).

The ASX Corporate Governance Council defines corporate governance as “the framework of rules, relationships, systems and processes within and by which authority is exercised and controlled in corporations” (ASX 2007 p3). The latest ASX Corporate Governance Council report (ASX 2007) articulates eight core principles, which the report states are of equal importance. Although primarily targeted at listed companies, the ASX principles are being taken into account by other types of organisations

Of course, the board does not confess to satisfying the greed for higher profits by taking these unpopular steps; they present all the process as catching up on the competitors. “GM has to do what it has to do in order to stay competitive, even if it means laying off thousands of people”, says a member of the board, and thus makes it more than clear that in a capitalist society the managers and the directors are concerned only with the profit maximization and with their own welfare, whereas the employees have to fight for their jobs in more and more unfavorable conditions. More than 30 000 workers have now lost their jobs, whereas the company’s chairman Roger Smith has just made $2 millions himself. The unions are no help at all in this moment. Supposed to increase the workers’ bargaining power, the unions have now become useless, since “too many people in the unions friends with the management”, whose interests, in this case, are completely the opposites to those of the workers.

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Beyond planning, cutting costs, globalization these automakers need leadership. In the long run we may see new technologies that improve the American auto industry’s power but for now what the industry is a leadership. In recent months ford hired a number of new executives to head key areas related to North American operations, such as product development, marketing, engineering and manufacturing. GM has done the same. One person shaking things up at GM is their newest director, Jerome York. The 67-year-old former auto executive has helped engineer turnarounds at Chrysler and International Business Machines Corp. He has been going over financial statements, seeking new engines and transmissions, and has even met with GM 's labor-relations executives to deal with the tense negotiations with the United Auto Workers, which is another ongoing problem for the company. Outside directors are increasingly looking to him to set the tone and agenda (The Wall Street Journal, 5/1/2006). That is what GM needs, leadership that understands the automobile business and is willing to fight for survival.

The evolution of the culture of our corporations has evolved in many ways and for many reasons. There were many different factors that played an important role in developing the change in the evolution of corporations. Societal and cultural influences played a major role in the early development of the objectives and reason for existence of corporations. Political forces have and will continue to play an influential role in the structure of corporations and the responsibilities corporations have in the communities in which they exist. Economic forces were one of the early influences, but will also continually be a leading factor in how corporations are governed and operated. The changes to how corporations are operated in turn affect

The key responsibility of a chairman is to lead the board while ensuring effectiveness on all aspects of its roles. Moreover, the board chairman play a vital part in promoting an open and critical culture to facilitate greater contribution of non-executive directors (FRC 2014). On the other hand, CEO is ultimately responsible for the day-to-day performance of the company. When an individual holds both board chairman and CEO positions, Jensen (1993) and Dechow et al (1996) argued that top management could exert undue influence on the board. Rather than protecting shareholders’ interest, the CEO/Chairman could influence board decision through the setting of board agenda while controlling the information flow to the board. Moreover, the CEO could also determine the board membership by selecting those who would not critically challenge their decision (Persons 2005). Therefore, in accordance to UK Governance Code (FRC 2014), the

Corporate governance is a system that ensures companies are directed and controlled (Roberts 2016a). Boards of directors are essential for companies, because they have the obligation to governance the whole company and draw up long-term scheme to make it success (Roberts 2016a).

The importance of governance has emerged only after the numerous corporate scandals witnessed globally during the past years. The aftermath of these failures have driven most OECD nations towards continuous reformation of their corporate governance practices. (OECD, 2003)