Anadolu Bil Meslek Yüksekokulu Dergisi

Yazarlar: Nurhan TALEBİ, Ceyhun KIR

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Structure of the Bank’s Board of Directors,Size of the

Özet: Banking sector in Turkey constitutes a significant importance in the economy. Educated human resource of the sector, high capital adequacy ratio, effective supervision and control, and relatively high profitability are its prominent factors. In addition, boards of directors of the banks in this sector are noteworthy with their perfect organizations, effective activities and qualified members. Like in all companies, boards of directors in the banks must also be established in accordance with the characteristics of the banks and effectively operated for a sustainable success. In order to ensure that, it is necessary to analyze the boards of directors of the banks in this sector and to determine how an appropriate board is established in terms of the effecting factors. In this study, the boards of directors of the banks acting in Turkey are analyzed. First of all, linear regression analysis is made to determine the factors which are affecting the number of members of the boards of directors. According to the result of the analysis; the variables which are used to determine the bank’s scale like total assets, deposits, number of employees and number of branch offices have statistically a significant effect on the number of the members of the board of directors. The number of members of the Board of Directors has a significant effect on the bank’s return on equity and it is found by using a simple linear regression. Besides that, it is determined that the banks that has a profitability over the average return on equity; and the banks under the average return on equity have different number of members; and the banks which have higher return on equity have more number of members.

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