What Competencies Should Directors Possess? Malaysia Perspective

Abstract

Directors’ competencies are seeing to be of importance to corporate governance. As this issue has not yet beingstudied extensively in Malaysia, this study determines the key competencies of Malaysian company’s directorsusing qualitative approach involving two stages of Delphi Technique. In the first stage all informationpertaining to directors’ competences in the literature had been reviewed. In the second stage, the keycompetencies identified in stage one were the criteria for developing a semi structured questionnaire. Participantswere asked to rank the competencies in term of their importance for directors’ performance. Based on personelinterviews with 41 participants eight types of competencies were found to be essential for Malaysian companies’directors. Financial competencies received the highest responses, followed by corporate planning, businessforecasting, legal, risk management, marketing, human resource and international business. This paper providesimportant evidence to support the conclusions drawn from the study about the importance of relevant directors’competencies for board and corporate effectiveness.

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