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Part 1: Assessment Criteria:

1. Demonstration of knowledge of the issues and evidence of wide reading to support your analysis
2. Demonstration of your ability to apply the knowledge to identify keys issues leading to your recommendations
3. Evidence of sound reasoning and the exercise of professional judgement to support your recommendations
4. Development and statement of concise recommendations for presentation to the Chairman
5. Overall structure and professional presentation of your report to the Chairman
6. High quality written communication of concepts and terms as the Chairman can be assumed to be professionally competent in corporate governance

'One is a token, two is a presence, three is a voice. Sound familiar? This seems to be the effect of placing women on corporate boards. Although corporate leaders may think otherwise, academic research seems to find this effect again and again.

In Australia, women hold 14.2 per cent of board chairs, 23.6 per cent of directorships, and 15.4 percent of CEO roles. In recent months, the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) have called for greater gender diversity in Australian boards.

There was an attempt by senator Nick Xenophon to legislate gender diversity in Australian government boards; however, the bill was later rejected by a government-controlled Senate Committee.

The AICD has set a target of 30 percent female board members and urged S&P / ASX 200 firms to meet the target by the end of 2018'.

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.

Part 2: Assessment Criteria:

1. Demonstration of knowledge of the issues and evidence of wide reading to support your analysis
2. Demonstration of your ability to apply the knowledge to identify keys issues leading to your recommendations
3. Evidence of sound reasoning and the exercise of professional judgement to support your recommendations
4. Development and statement of concise recommendations for presentation to the AII
5. Overall structure and professional presentation of your report to the ASA
6. High quality written communication of concepts and terms in ordinary English as the report will be published on the ASA web site and not all readers can be assumed to be professionally competent in corporate governance

'There are many examples in Australia of whistleblowers being retrenched or punished for being brave enough to reveal issues in the public interest.

It is unfortunate but not uncommon for whistleblowers to be forced to take costly actions through the courts or Fair Work Commission after losing their jobs.

The move to uncover best practice in whistleblowing in the private sector is timely given the recent high-profile scandals at Target and CommInsure as well as the allegations of a broken corporate culture which was raised during Labor's call for a royal commission into financial services. Whistleblowers revealed unethical behaviour at the Westfarmers-owned discount department store Target and at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary CommInsure. The Target case involved an unknown person in the accounts department tipping off management about the use of supplier rebates to create about $20 million in additional profits in the half year to December.

Seven people have been sacked following that disclosure and former Target CEO Stuart Machin has left Westfarmers while denying all knowledge of what happened.

In the CommInsure case, chief medical officer Benjamin Koh claimed doctors were pressured to change medical reports, patient's files were deleted and claims delayed as part of a strategy to avoid policy pay-outs. Koh lost his job for breaching CBA's IT policy relating to taking client files home. But at this stage it would appear his actions have been vindicated given that CBA chief executive Ian Narev has apologised for what happened'.

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.

Solution

The Australian stock market is one of the well-advanced in the Asia-Pacific region. There is a growing preference towards gender diversity in corporate boards of Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed companies. Women comprise 50% of the Australian population. Industry experts believe that if gender diversity of 50% is not achieved in the board or key management position, it will be difficult to achieve observable diversity in the corporate boards.

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Industry research shows that women prefer to hold a senior management position in shared services such as HR, IT, legal and communication rather than key management positions such as CEO, finance and operations from where the board members are selected. Considering, the average board size of 7.2 in the ASX 200 companies, having a critical mass comprises approximately 40% of the board size.

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