In today’s briefing:
- Nominating Committee Also Has Problems Achieving Only Formal Criteria of Corporate Governance Code
Nominating Committee Also Has Problems Achieving Only Formal Criteria of Corporate Governance Code
- Nominating Committee’s main activity is the selection of individual director candidates, and the Nominating Committee tends to be less involved in issues related to top management appointments, including succession planning.
- Although most companies have a majority of independent directors as members of the nominating committee, the nominating committee may in fact be a body that approves top management’s proposals.
- Companies focus only on prime market listing criteria of “committee establishment and committee member composition” and overlook original intent. The problem is that it’s all about achieving the formal criteria.