Quorum determines whether enough members are present for a body to transact substantive business. It is distinct from the voting threshold for a proposal. The organization’s governing rules supply the requirement, which a chair must check before treating discussion as authorized action.
- Entry typeRelated entry
- FromParliamentary Procedure / Robert’s Rules of Order (tool)
- Category of its source unitGovernance Institutions & Procedures
- DomainGroups & Decisions
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Related entry
Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Governance Institutions & Procedures
Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.