Sentence examples for supervisory boards from inspiring English sources
They sit on company supervisory boards and works councils.
Mr Ospel shunned offers of seats on corporate supervisory boards.
They cannot create competence or stop supervisory boards being dozy.
Managers of Germany's public companies are overseen by supervisory boards of workers' and shareholders' representatives.
But the longest section of the code was concerned with turning supervisory boards into better watchdogs.
German supervisory boards are also often unwieldy, with up to 20 members.
Big German companies' supervisory boards are supposed to act as a check on their management boards.
Under this model, workers' representatives fill half the seats on firms' supervisory boards.
And, second, German supervisory boards have been accused of being dozy or incompetent in recent years.
(Supervisory boards are similar to the boards of directors in American firms).
It wouldn't happen in Germany where 90% of companies are covered by collective bargaining and unions sit on supervisory boards.
