Webster's New World Robert's Rules of Order Simplified And Applied: Second Edition

by Robert McConnell Productions

Overview

This is the clearest, most useful guide to parliamentary procedure, now with new information on effective and reliable procedures for nominations, elections, ballots, balloting, and ballot counting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544188747
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/17/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	436
Sales rank:	496,775
File size:	900 KB

About the Author

Robert McConnell Productions is a multimedia company providing simplified information about parliamentary procedure in the form of videos, books, magazine articles, and a website: http://parli.com, which was the first Web site about parliamentary procedure on the Internet. The company also makes and markets videos about France, Russia, and Cuba, and produces custom-made videos for corporate clients. Robert McConnell Productions has been in business since 1993.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Introduction.

PART I: Meetings and Organizations.

1. The Basics.

2. The Order of a Business Meeting.

3. Presenting Business to the Assembly.

4. Debating the Motion.

5. Voting.

PART II: Motions Simplified.

6. Motions.

7. Using Subsidiary Motions to Help Adopt a Main Motion.

8. Using Privileged Motions.

9. Using Incidental Motions.

10. Using Motions That Bring a Question Again Before the Assembly.

PART III: Membership.

11. Officers.

12. Nominations and Elections.

13. Committees.

14. The Role of the Member.

15. Discipline.

PART IV: Meetings and Strategies.

16. Meetings.

17. Strategies for Individual Motions Illustrated.

18. Most Frequently Asked Questions.

PART V: Governing Documents.

19. Various Types of Governing Documents.

20. Bylaws.

PART VI: Appendices.

Appendix A: Correct Parliamentary Terminology.

Appendix B: Meeting Script.

Appendix C: Sample Minutes.

Appendix D: Steps in Making a Motion.

Appendix E: Ranking of Motions.

Appendix F: A History.

Appendix G: Who Was Henry Robert?

Appendix H: National Organizations.

Appendix I: Motions That Take a Majority Vote.

Appendix J: Motions That Take a Two-Thirds Vote.

Index.