很少企业的管理人员陷于私营公司董事会的困境,大多数董事会对管理负责,并能加强总经理的工作。在公营公司,这种责任明显地表现为董事会对股东的责任。然而,在私营公司为难的是大多数的股东(他们投票选举董事会)和总经理常常是同一个人。在与二十五个既为私营公司也为公营公司服务的董事们的谈话中,我们获悉为主人服务和监督主人/总经理之间的潜在冲突常常是私营公司董事们效率低的唯一重要的原因。那么,在一个由总经理管理的公司,董事会的作用是什么,董事们怎样才能与总经理建立一种关系,从而使他们能够履行他们的职责。这篇文章研究了 Few corporate executives are trapped in the plight of private company boards. Most boards are responsible for management and can strengthen the work of the general manager. In public companies, this responsibility clearly manifests itself as the board’s responsibility to shareholders. However, it is difficult for private companies that most of the shareholders (they vote for the board of directors) and the general manager are often the same person. In conversations with twenty-five directors who serve both private and public companies, we learned that the potential conflict between mastering the service and supervising the owner/general manager is often the only important factor in the inefficiency of private company directors. the reason. Then, in a company managed by a general manager, what is the role of the board of directors and how can directors establish a relationship with the general manager so that they can perform their duties? This article has studied