Diversity of Directors
Implementation status of Board diversity of Taiwan Business Bank
Board diversity
To implement the Board Diversity Policy, Article 34 of TBB's "Corporate Governance Best Practice Principles" states that, in order to create a healthy structure of the Board of Directors, the composition of the Board shall be determined by taking diversity into consideration. It is advisable that directors concurrently serving as the Bank's managers not exceed one-third of the total number of the Board members, and that an appropriate policy on diversity based on the Bank's business operations, operating dynamics, and development needs be formulated and include, without being limited to, the following two general standards:
The members of the board should possess the necessary knowledge, skills and literacy to perform their duties. In order to achieve the ideal objective of corporate governance of TBB, all board of directors should possess the following capabilities:
- Basic requirements and values such as gender, age, nationality, and culture.
- Professional knowledge and technical background (e.g. legal, accounting, industry, finance, marketing, or technology), professional skills or industry experience.
The members of the board should possess the necessary knowledge, skills and literacy to perform their duties. In order to achieve the ideal objective of corporate governance of TBB, all board of directors should possess the following capabilities:
- Good Judgment of Business.
- Accounting and financial analysis ability.
- Management ability.
- Risk management ability.
- Crisis Management ability.
- Industry knowledge.
- International market outlook.
- Leadership.
- Decision-making ability.