chairperson

(redirected from chairpersons)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal.

Chair of the Board

In a publicly-traded company, the highest ranking member of the board of directors. The chair is elected by the board, presides over meetings, and acts as a liaison between management and shareholders. The chair has the responsibility to ensure that the company's policies are being properly enforced to benefit shareholders. As such, he/she guides the board in establishing general policies for the organization, including dividend policies, and hiring or firing major executives. He/she is answerable to shareholders for his/her decisions, but is, in general, the most powerful officer in the company.

chairperson

  1. a person who organizes and runs a committee, drawing up the agenda for each committee meeting, ensuring the orderly conduct of the meeting and approving the minutes or records of the meeting.
  2. a person who organizes and runs the BOARD OF DIRECTORS of a JOINT STOCK COMPANY. See DIRECTOR.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
They accused the chairpersons of not taking the business of the House seriously even as they called for tougher sanctions against the truant leadership.
National Assembly adjourns for lack of business to debate
According to law, first of all chairperson of the commission would be appointed after which names of members would be finalized and new commission would start functioning.
NCSW still awaits chairperson, members
Today, women chairpersons in India broadly fall under one of three brackets: those who come from the founding family, first-generation entrepreneurs, and professionals including India heads of multinational companies, such as HSBC India's Naina Lal Kidwai.
A Few Good Women
We also recognize that boards must be increasingly vigilant to this aspect of leadership structure as the recent fervor for corporate icons such as Bank of America, Office Depot, Texas Instruments, and Weyerhaeuser to adopt an independent board chairperson attests.
Let's get real on role separation: is splitting the CEO and chairperson positions leading edge ... or over the edge?
Ideally, however, deans will attempt to establish a team mentality so that department chairpersons and dean are working collaboratively to succeed programmatically, to address existing problems, to envision potential growth areas, and to reach out to constituencies.
Academic chairperson evaluation instrument: a potential design
Once the topic has been selected the Seminar Coordinator solicits names of experts in the topic under consideration from the Chairperson, NRA President, NRA Executive Director and others in the Field of Rehabilitation (and other relevant fields) specializing in the topic under study.
The Switzer Memorial seminars in vocational rehabilitation
The GAO survey found 95% of the audit committee chairpersons agreed their committees were responsible for
Benchmarking the audit committee
As for inservice presentations, committee chairpersons and members are a knowledgeable and readily available resource.
Getting the nursing staff involved in CQI
As the honorary chairpersons, Black, Jimenez and the Knowles family will help to support music education throughout Texas by lending time and talent to TMP initiatives.
Texas Music Project Names 2004 Honorary Chairpersons and Latino Initiative
RDC VIs sector committee chairpersons and co-chairpersons were also elected during the meeting.
Philippines : RDC-VI endorses 5 nominees for top posts
This decision was taken at a meeting convened at the Parliament House in order to elect the Chairpersons for the 34 parliamentary committees.
Senator Saleem elected Chairperson PRL
The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan today approved chairpersons of 8 parliamentary committees.
Parliament of Kyrgyzstan approves chairperson of 8 parliamentary committees

Financial browser ?
Full browser ?