Question - Please give me some idea about this report assignment.
Address the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance. As a means of illustrating this relationship, you are to conduct a critical analysis of the problems that have taken place at Wells Fargo recently.
This report addresses the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance. As a means of illustrating this relationship, you are to conduct a critical analysis of the problems in corporate governance and ethics at Wells Fargo and identify how the principles of corporate governance and ethics failed.
Did anybody blow the whistle? What mechanisms are in place to protect whistle blowers and are these mechanisms sufficient to protect the various stakeholders?
Specific areas to be addressed are:
- Identify the deficiencies in the system of corporate governance and ethics of Wells Fargo.
- Describe the circumstances which led to their breakdown.
- What mechanisms are in place to protect whistle blowers and are these mechanisms sufficient to protect the various stakeholders?
- Recommend strategies that should have been implemented so as to avoid the scandal.
- Detail the lessons to be learned from this case study.
Examples of the areas to be examined are:
- the board's relationship to the shareholders;
- the corporate culture of the company;
- the board's relationship to all other stakeholders (apart from the shareholders);