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Benefits Of Policy Governance Over The Traditional Approach

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Brody Lukas
Benefits Of Policy Governance Over The Traditional Approach

Carver model, technically known as policy governance is a system of hierarchy in any organization. Policy governance identifies and defines appropriate relationships between an organization’s owners, board of directors, and the CEO. Policy governance or risk governance for that matter can also be considered as an operating system for the board of directors.


It offers an integrated set of principles, which when consistently applied allows the boards to realize their accountability towards the organization. Policy governance and risk governance work hand in hand and in the following section we will discuss how this new system is better than the traditional decision-making approach.


1. Empowered CEO and staff members to do their jobs with confidence and creativity: For traditional boards, typically the CEO makes the plans and the same decisions are simply imposed on the employees. Even if employees take certain decisions, they must take prior approval from the board to get the same in working. In this approach, the direction from the board is often unclear, incomplete, contradictory, or it leads to more micromanaging. As a result, it creates a confusion in the work culture because the staff is not able to distinguish between advice and suggestions from individual board members vs the direction for which they will be help accountable. Boards can use policy governance to create a clear criterion for successful plans, decisions, and actions. The CEO or the staff can enjoy the freedom to work under these criteria within the boundaries of any reasonable interpretation.


2. Board can save time discussing the operational details: As the traditional boards do not have a clear and consistent way of distinguishing between the responsibilities of board and the staff, micromanagement cannot be prevented as the board needs to stick to board-driven agendas. In policy governance, the boards and their CEOs are clear on who is accountable for what, and avoid the temptation to wade into each other’s areas.


3. The shareholders and owners are heard: The traditional boards do not use any kind of proper system to cater to all the concerns of the shareholders. Many recent corporate disasters are the testimony to a huge gap between the ideas of the shareholders and the work of the boards. Policy governance work on this gap and ensures to fill the gap. The modern boards using policy governance know their accountability that comes from the legal or moral ownership, and that the board is a servant-leader in the organization.


If you are planning to implement risk governance in your organization, you should do it now. Our team is here to help you. We will explain a bit about alternative futures as well. Talk to us today.


Brody Lukas is the author of this website and writes articles for a long time. To know more about Risk Governance and Alternative Futures please visit the website.

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