Tips: Issues that benefit from making culturally legitimate rules
- Membership—rules for who can and cannot be a member of the organisation.
- Representation—rules for who is eligible to sit on the governing body, and how people are elected to it.
- Conduct—rules for how the governing body, managers and staff behave.
- Decision making—rules for how accountable consensus-based decisions should be made.
- Meetings—rules for how and when meetings are held and for addressing culturally sensitive issues.
- Communication—rules for how members will be consulted and kept informed.
- Mediation—rules for how disputes and complaints will be resolved.
- Administration—rules to enable greater cultural flexibility in employment and human resources conditions.
- Planning—rules that support future cultural vision and priorities.
- Gender roles—rules for the different knowledge and leadership responsibilities of men and women.