Tuesday, February 22, 2011

AccountAbility hits back at 'untenable' standards board

The management of embattled standards organisation AccountAbility has issued a letter to stakeholders attacking the actions of its own AA1000 Standards Board following the collective resignation of that group earlier this week.

The letter said that the Board had been made untenable by "fundamental disagreements over the future governance of the Standards function, the propriety of certain Board members and others in leadership positions maintaining competing business interests, and ongoing concerns about breaches of independence".

The management pushed the extraordinary attack further by saying: "We believe the Board's position was heavily influenced by false, misleading and inaccurate information provided by certain disgruntled employees of AccountAbility."

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