Required:

Assume you are employed in a management consulting firm and have expertise as a corporate

governance specialist. Your client, Tourism Australian has requested you to provide a one

page brief (maximum 250 words) specifying the essential criteria for a director to be

appointed to the board of Tourism Australia.

The client has said; ‘Make it brief, I’m too busy to read a long document. You should follow

the ideas of former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill who stated:

Required

Assume you have been engaged as a corporate governance consultant to a board of directors

of a public company listed on the stock exchange. Your assignment is to prepare a report to

be submitted to the Chairman of the board explaining and analysing how the company should

define and delineate the separate roles, duties and responsibilities of the company’s board of

directors from those of the CEO. Your report should contain specific recommendations on the

separate roles of directors and the CEO. The Chairman has specifically indicated that she

intends to make your report available to shareholders of the company and that the document

will be published on the company’s web site.

Required

Assume you have been employed as a corporate governance consultant by a company listed

on the Australian Stock Exchange and ranked within the ASX 200. The Chairman of the

company has decided to address the issue of gender diversity on the company’s board to

ensure the board meets the AICD target by the end of 2018. As an initial step in the process

of increasing the gender diversity of the board the Chairman has employed you to prepare a

report that critically analyses and assesses the evidence that gender diversity on a company

board is associated with improved business performance and also provide recommendations

on how the company should initiate a gender diversity policy for the board. Your report will

be tabled at the next board meeting for board members to review and evaluate your

recommendations. 

Required

Assume you have been employed as a corporate governance consultant by the Australian

Shareholders Association (ASA). The ASA is concerned with the risks associated with

investments in corporations that do not have a ‘best practice’ whistleblower policy. In order

to minimise this risk the ASA wants to know what are the best-practice contemporary

standards for whistleblower policies. Your assignment is to prepare a report to be published

on the ASA web site recommending best-practice whistleblower policy for adoption by listed

companies on the Australian stock exchange.

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