Governance Structure of AIESEC Norway
Governance Structure of AIESEC Norway
Session objectives
•For us to have a clear understanding of theformal governance structure of AIESEC Norway•For us to have a clear understanding of theinformal leadership and managementstructure of AIESEC Norway
Taking the steps needed to uniteour leadership
Governance structure of AIESEC Norway as of today
Formal governance StructureNational
Executive Board
Board ofDirectors
MemberCommittee
Local Comittees
Role
National ExecutiveBoard
Board of Directors MemberCommittee
LCPs
Legislative Legal responsible Top Management Middle Management
Advisory MCP: CEO ofAIESEC Norway
CEO of their LCs
Top management oftheir LC
Accountable towards
National ExecutiveBoard
Board of Directors MemberCommittee
LCPs
Members NEB NEB through BoD MC
Legitimacy
National ExecutiveBoard
Board of Directors MemberCommittee
LCPs
LCPs forms NEB Elected by NEB MCP Elected by NEB
Elected by members
Roles and responsibilites
National ExecutiveBoard
Board of Directors MemberCommittee
LCPs
Legislation Oversee AIESEC Norway processes
Direction of AIESEC Norway
Member ofNational ExecutiveBoard
Elect Board ofDirectors
Ensure compliancein LCs
Strategy CEO of their LCs
Elect/select MC Quarterly meetingswith MC
Services to LCs Meet membershipcriteria
Not a strategic role Management ofoperations
Elect/select/fire
National ExecutiveBoard
Board of Directors MemberCommittee
LCPs
Elect (select)/fire MC
Giverecommendationsto NEB and MC
MCP select/fireMCVPs
Select/fire LC VPs
Liability
National ExecutiveBoard
Board of Directors MemberCommittee
LCPs
Organizationalhealth
Financial and legal Financial and legal Performance and compliance criteria
Notes on roles: NEB
• ”Coincidence” that he LCPs are also theNational Executive Board
Notes on roles: BoD
• Idividual and financially liable if a third party is injuried
• Member Committee doesnt report to Board, Board ensure that it is updated due to itsformal liability and purpose.
• Board does not report to LCPs , but to NEB
Notes on roles: MC
• In AIESEC Norway: Organization is dependent on expertise of MC VPs
• MC ensure finance and legal management and risk prevention of the organization as a whole
Notes on roles:LCPs
• Based on strategy, reality and business logic, LCPs can also take part in management and leadership constellations chaired by MC
• LCPs are free to lead their LCs in any directionsnot depending on MC
Member Committee
• In AIESEC Norway: Organization is dependent on expertise of MC VPs
• MC ensure finance and legal management and risk prevention of the organization as a whole
Lack of clarity in reporting line of this organization
Who reports to whom by when?
Reporting line of AIESEC Norway
• MC reports to NEB through Board of Directors
• Board of Directors reports to NEB
• MC VPs reports to MCP
• LCP reports to MC
• LCVPs reports to LCP
Informal reporting line of AIESEC Norway [based on agreements]
• LCVPs reports to MCVPs
• LCPs reports to LC coach
• Any other reporting line that were to be agreed upon
Potential Informal “entities” as part of strategic decision of CEO
Leaders ofAIESEC Norway
Board of Advisors[Not excisting]
FunctionalSubcommittees
Internal Auditor[Not excisting]
“Leaders of AIESEC Norway”(often mistaken as NEB)
• Informal per definition, leadership and management ”team” of AIESEC Norway
• In order for efficient executive impact, shouldconsist of MC and LCPs (expertise, knowledge, perspective and legitimacy)
• Can decide on direction of AIESEC Norway
• Can decide on strategy of AIESEC Norway
• Can recommend motions and mandates to NEB
• MCP chair ”Leaders of AIESEC Norway”
Politics comparison: ParlamentarismNEB-MC-LC
• Regjeringen [Government]: Executive body led by prime minister chosen by the people.
• Prime minister choses his ministers
• Stortinget [Parliament] is the legislative body led by the king
• The executive body is accountable towards the parliament
• The parliament however has transferred rights and power for politics to the government
• In this comparison NEB equals Parliament and MC equalsGovernment.
• For efficient politics, Government has majority of votes in Parliament, which in our example represents alignment and cooperation [Leaders of AIESEC Norway]
Corporation comparison: Eksportfinans
• Top Management: CEO and the Executive Vice Presidents
• Middle Management: Managers of the departments
• Top management reports directly to Board of Directors
• Board of Directors represents the organization as a whole
• Top management and middle management [which are closest to the employees] are in strategy implementation question forming an informal group of leaders to ensure efficient and fast decisionmaking and effective communication.
• In this comparison, MC equals the Top Management, LCPs equalsthe Middle Management, Board of Diretors of Eksportfinans equalsNEB and Top Management+Middle Management equals ”Leaders ofAIESEC Norway”
Comparison to AIESEC Denmark
• Board of Directors [LCPs +MCP] has a legislative role
• National Presidents Meeting [LCPs + MC] who has a informalstrategic role [e.g development of AIESEC Denmark 2015 strategy]. Initiated by MCP, James, CEO of AIESEC in Denmark.
• MC team is top management and is reponsible for:– Direction of organization
– Management of operations
– Services to LCs
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