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Governance
* Includes roles and responsibilities, structure, etc.
* affects their work environment.
* broader notion than government.
* category with a normative and a prescriptive dimension.
* function of structure and of how people act within that structure.
* includes the state, but transcends it by taking in the private sector and civil society.
* involves control, accountability, responsibility, and authority.
* is an iterative, reflective process
  - based on a system of elections that are free, equal, general and periodic
  - different from politics
  - direction, control, and exercise of authority
  - governance
* is the change brought about by the populations reactions
  - exercise of political power to manage a nation's affairs
  - key to an open, transparent and equitable society
  - process of effective coordination when power and knowledge are distributed
  - resultant or effect of an interaction between official and unofficial actors
  - to a large extent also perception and appearance
* means decisions that effect how the community works.
* product of trust and shared responsibility.
* sets the stage within which management occurs.
  * ' is the term for the way a group of people such as a country do things. Many groups create a government to decide how things are to be done. Governance is different from politics. Politics deals with people with different ideas working together to create an agreement about what to do, and governance is doing what politics decided needed to be done.
* shared process.
* system of checks and balances whereby a board is established to manage the managers.
* tool a means to an end, an evolving process.

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Clinical governance
* framework for ensuring the delivery of high quality care.
* is about protecting patients
  - technology
  - treating employees as equals
  - quality development in action
* requires that the quality of medical care be continuously monitored.

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Corporate governance
* affects the daily lives of people everywhere.
* includes ways to take into account the prevailing community mores.
* is about how companies treat their workforce
  - protecting stakeholder interests in the organization
  - an extremely under-researched area for most countries in the world
  - antidemocratic
  - characterized by adherence to constitutionalism
  - primarily the responsibility of the private sector
  - related to the way banks organized their business activity
  - the organization's strategic response to risk
* set of relationships and stakeholders.

Effective governance
* increases predictability of outcomes.
* is considered a product of trust and shared responsibility
  - important for enhancing communication and problem-solving
* key factor in social and economic growth.

Global governance
* requires that corporations are held accountable to international law.
* smells like, and is, world government.

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Good governance
* is about participation, about letting the people's voice be heard
  - all about partnership of all the stakeholders
  - also crucial for private sector development
  - central to improving confidence in public institutions and development programs
  - critical to poverty reduction
  - essential for restoring market confidence in an economy
  - perhaps the most effective form of conflict prevention
* key to whether nations are overwhelmed or triumph by it.
* means an effective system of checks and balances
  - stability, economic growth and human development
  - the effective and efficient ways government does that it is mandated to do
  - transparency, accountability, respect for the people
* requires that leaders are in sync with new thinking and new communication skills.