title: Governing decisions of your association.
abstract: Every association has some sort of internal structure to make decisions and to do the business of the association. Though the IDA is a member organization, we use a representative form of governing to allow selected members to represent the entire membership. For the Indiana Dental Association, there are two major parts to this governance structure: the administrative body in the Board of Trustees and a legislative body called the House of Delegates. Both are made up of representative members from each of the local component societies or districts.
authors.forename: Jay T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Dziwlik
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003142:Communication; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D005249:Fees and Charges; D006075:Governing Board; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D007857:Leadership; D011050:Policy Making; D012953:Societies, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014341:Trustees