Insight - Company secretaryship: sailing against the tide

As this article is being written, Maicsa is finalising the publication of the “Corporate governance guide for company secretaries and governance professionals of public listed companies” which seeks to provide practical handles for company secretaries on corporate governance matters. (File pic shows the MAICSA logo on the door of an office being openend in Penang.)

IN a bid to end the United Nation’s Security Council stranglehold over the selection of the Secretary-General in 2016/2017, the battle cry by a group of prominent reformists at that juncture was non-other than “more of a General, less of Secretary”.

Such is the parochial and deep-seated connotation relating to the nomenclature, “Secretary” – a vocation that is deemed to be administrative and clerical in nature. A “General” is conversely regarded as a position in which there is strong command and leadership with the responsibility of managing power dynamics.