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Board Diversity and Effectiveness
Boards are essential to organizations that require experience, leadership, guidance, and oversight. Boards should address the needs of the organization, both internally and externally. They can do this by being diverse, committed to the organization, and by encouraging and partaking in critical debate on matters of performance and effectiveness.
The importance of board background diversity is due to the fact that the board itself provides multiple functions for an organization, such as oversight and guidance. But more than that the board must also have experience with and understanding of the organization, the industry, and connections to external environmentssuch as political, economic, and social environments that could and often do impact organizations. When boards are not composed of diverse members, the chances of the organization having connections to the various environments or of having members who understand the industry is minimal. But the more that members of the board come from diverse backgrounds, the more likely it is that these members will be able to supply the organization with rich guidance and smart stewardship while the organization attempts to navigate the various pitfalls that await it down the line (Brinckerhoff, 2012). An additional reason diversity is important is that communities today are diverse, and a board should represent the diverse set of values that are found in the...…of action to be. Critical debate in board meetings can help leaders reduce their biases or assumptions, and it can help show others why research matters (Ionnidis, 2018; Page et al., 2019).
The more that board members show up, i.e., demonstrate commitment, the more likely the board will have the opportunity to debate issues. The more diverse the board is, i.e., the more its members hail from different backgrounds, the more likely it is that the board will have the experience, understanding, knowledge, and insight to debate important matters. The more that the members of the board possess critical thinking skills, the more likely the board will be able to debate matters…
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Faith@Work Summit. (2014). Stewardship economics. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuw56pyf8Bs&t=2s
Ioannidis, J. P. (2018). Meta-research: Why research on research matters. PLoSBiology, 16(3), e2005468.
Page, M. J., Higgins, J. P., & Sterne, J. A. (2019). Assessing risk of bias due to missingresults in a synthesis. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, 349-374.
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