Usb
Business School in Vredenburg

The Unit for Corporate Governance in Africa was launched at the USB in July 2007 and is a direct response to the African continent's need for a proper focus on corporate governance through research, education and development initiatives.

True integration is about moving beyond combined documents to truly integrated processes, reports and thinking. Strategy is about moving beyond a compliance-driven approach to a forward-looking approach, enabling you to make the link between financial performance and non-financial performance with a longer term perspective on value creation. Process is about exchange between practitioners on ways to improve your processes by engaging different departments, senior management and investors. Recognition is about receiving an IRC certificate for this training. Carrots & Sticks was first published in 2006 to provide an overview of trends in standards for sustainability reporting. In 2016, the project covered 71 countries and territories, and identified reporting instruments in 64 of those. What is the link between the health of a company's bottom line and the health of its employees? The article is about corporate wellness and the link with financial performance in a South African context. The key finding of the article is that there is a positive correlation between the health and wellness programmes of organisations and their financial performance. The research comprised an assessment of the share price performance of ten listed SA companies included in the Discovery Healthy Company Index. The share price performance of these companies outperformed the JSE All Share Index by at least 5% per annum over a ten-year period. It promotes sustainable business development through an integrated sustainability vision for governance and board processes and it contributes to building governance credibility for stakeholder confidence. In doing so, the focus is on the director as person, the governance processes of boards, and board dynamics. Candidates must have basic knowledge of being a director as well as experience of being a board member. Candidates are also required to send through a curriculum vitae and a reference with their application. The Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa has identified the need to improve corporate governance standards for State-Owned Companies (SOCs) as a focus area. Applied research and the application of an SOC Ratings Matrix can help SOC boards to upgrade their performance and to be more effective with government and other shareholders. The Centre can provide high-level specialist knowledge required for each board, as well as government ministers and heads of departments who are interested in more effective corporate governance. Lynn McGregor has done in-depth research into corporate governance relationships between government, boards and executives.