What competencies should directors possess? Malaysia perspective
Directors' competencies are seeing to be of importance to corporate governance. As this issue has not yet being studied extensively in Malaysia, this study determines the key competencies of Malaysian company's directors using qualitative approach involving two stages of Delphi Technique....
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| Summary: | Directors' competencies are seeing to be of importance to corporate governance. As this issue has not yet being
studied extensively in Malaysia, this study determines the key competencies of Malaysian company's directors
using qualitative approach involving two stages of Delphi Technique. In the first stage all information pertaining to
directors' competences in the literature had been reviewed. In the second stage, the key competencies identified in
stage one were the criteria for developing a semi structured questionnaire. Participants were asked to rank the
competencies in term of their importance for directors' performance. Based on personel interviews with 41
participants eight types of competencies were found to be essential for Malaysian companies' directors. Financial
competencies received the highest responses, followed by corporate planning, business forecasting, legal, risk
management, marketing, human resource and international business. This paper provides important evidence to
support the conclusions drawn from the study about the importance of relevant directors' competencies for board and
corporate effectiveness. |
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