A selection of books, articles and guides for and about non-executive directors including sources of guidance and good practice.
Online books, guides and publications
eBooks
The library provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers.
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The non-executive director's handbook
Patrick Dunne (Elsevier Science & Technology, 2008).
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Online articles
The library provides access to a range of articles in full text from leading business, finance and management journals.
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Useful links
Organisations and networks
Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders
The centre's website provides information on its work, current research projects and published research papers. The centre is responsible for an annual Female FTSE benchmarking report, The Female FTSE Index, which has been published since 1999 and includes details of the number of female non-executive directors in the FTSE 100.
Independent Director Programme
Online presence for the initiative from Ernst & Young which includes access to a range of thought leadership and research publications.
Information and TMT Non-Executives Association (ITNEA)
Website for the UK association for non-executive directors and independent directors and chairmen of listed IT, telecommunications and IT related media companies. The site includes the full text of papers and surveys, including The professional non-executive director in IT companies and New direction: Companies need their non-executive directors to provide more help and guidance than ever before.
Financial Times Non-Executive Directors' Club
Membership website incorporating a register of new and experienced non-executives as well as news, articles, features, jobs and links for those performing or seeking non-executive director and trustee roles. This subscription-based service is provided in association with Grant Thornton.
Non-executive director
Website and database aimed at the promotion of UK based non-executive directorships. Subscription includes access to an online publication, entitled 'Aspects of non-executive directorship'.
Non-executive Directorship Exchange
Organisation which sets out to help 'individuals find the right non-executive directorship, for the benefit of both individual and company'. The site includes listings of available NEDs and companies seeking NEDs.
Reports, surveys and guidance
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Sample non-executive director's appointment letter (ICSA)
Revised guidance note from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), published on 14 December 2011, which provides an initial checklist of elements a company may wish to cover in its non-executive director appointment letters.
Guide to directors' remuneration (KPMG)
Annual report analysing the latest trends in FTSE 350 non-executive directors' fees. Fee information is available for the roles of non-executive chairman, deputy chairman and senior independent director and other non-executive directors.
Non-executive director survey (PWC)
Annual survey looking at the roles and responsibilities of non-executive directors, the fees paid and the structure of boards in FTSE 350 companies.
Chairman and non-executive director survey (MM&K)
Annual survey published by remuneration consultancy MM&K every January which includes information on fee levels, time commitments and attitudes to all aspects of their jobs from chairmen and non-executive directors sitting on the boards of FTSE350, Small Cap, AIM, private and multi-national groups. Also contains a section covering all aspects of the work of the remuneration committee and a section on directors’ views on board appraisal.
Non executive directors: Are you getting the right information to govern? (PDF 218KB/8 pages)
Document published by the Audit Committee Institute (ACI) in April 2011 providing 'insights into the type of information that non-executive directors may receive from management and what it might look like in practice'.
Non-Executive Directors: Their role and responsibilities in a private company (ICAS)
A practical guide (pdf 256kb/23 pages) published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland. The guide was announced in a press release on 16th June 2009.
Solicitors non-executive directors - guidance notes (Law Society)
Advice aimed at private practice solicitors considering whether to become non executive directors issued by the Standards and Guidance Committee of the Law Society following consultations with the Company Law Committee and the DTI.
The role of the non-executive director: making corporate governance work
A CIMA publication from 2003 which looked at the evolution of corporate governance in the UK, the review of the role and effectiveness of NEDs, and corporate governance and the finance professional.
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