English translation: executive board / board of directors
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Dutch to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Government / Politics
Dutch term or phrase:directie (zie context)
Ik ben verschillende teksten aan het vertalen die later samengevoegd moeten worden en tot mijn frustratie worden nogal wat woorden door elkaar gebruikt.
Tot nu toe vertaalde ik "directie" als "management". Nu ben ik met een tekst bezig die het heeft over een management team (MT) enerzijds (die dan misschien de functie vervult van wat andere omschrijven als directie), en een directie anderzijds die plotseling een hele andere functie heeft: deze directie maakt onderdeel uit van het bestuur (zie onderstaand, nr. 2). Ik zal een begeleidend schrijven doen bij mijn verhaal straks, maar ik moet nu echt even een woord hebben voor directie. Management is al bezet en ik kom niet verder dan "director's office". Context hieronder. Veel puzzelplezier.
1) Over de uitkomsten wordt maandelijks gerapporteerd zowel aan de directie als de Raad van Toezicht.
2) Dit is zowel van toepassing op de bestuurlijke organen (Raad van Toezicht en directie) als op de interne organisatie.
3) De uitkomsten worden maandelijks gerapporteerd aan MT, directie en Raad van Toezicht.
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How about "bestuur" here? After an Executive Board and a Board of Supervision, how much bestuur can they have left? I'm thinking of going for governing/administrative bodies, also because they're talking about "reglementen," plural. See below:
Het onderscheid is strikt geregeld in de reglementen van bestuur, reglement (enkelvoud hier) en de uit de raad van toezicht aangestelde auditcommissie en renumeratiecommissie.
Did you notice, when googling, that quite a number of those companies were from Switzerland, Scandinavian countries and countries like Russia of Brazil?
Within every jurisdiction companies have some leeway as to their governance structure, and the exact rules are different in every country. When translating for a particular company it would do no harm to check the Articles of Association to understand what's what.
In a general sense, I wouldn't know whether the EB is typically higher ranking than the BoD. Hopefully someone else can shed more light on this...
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. The body sometimes has a different name, such as board of trustees, board of governors, board of managers, or executive board. It is often simply referred to as "the board." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_board
Can anyone give a quick explanation of the difference between the board of directors and the executive board? Do most large companies have both? Does one have more power than the other (the directors I assume)? Do the Dutch make the same distinction?
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executive board / board of directors
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xxxjarry South Africa Local time: 05:28 Works in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 50
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