The modern rules of order
By: Donald A. Tortorice
Edition: 4th edition.
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781627224970
Subjects: Business meetings; Meetings; Corporate meetings; Parliamentary practice
Description: "The essential purpose of parliamentary rules for a business meeting is quite simply to provide a framework of established procedures for the orderly and fair conduct of the meeting's business. All too frequently, however, traditional parliamentary rules can lead to confusion, disagreement, and disruption when, in debate on a particularly troublesome issue, it is discovered that the Chair of the meeting is not completely familiar with what can be complex and involuted procedures. This is not surprising since traditional rules were tailored to formally structured parliamentary debate. The Modern Rules of Order aims to provide a more modern and simplified procedure that promotes efficiency, decorum and fairness in a form that can be easily mastered and later referred to with ease. They are designed for application to a business meeting, whether the business is that of a major corporation or a small non-profit association, in order to promote timely consideration of the substance of the meeting rather than ritualistic procedure"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Rules of order; title: Discussion of the rules; title: Typical meeting agendas; title: Discussion of minutes, and general guidelines for the conduct of meetings; title: Typical minutes.