A policy is a plan of action. It is a statement of intention committing the management to a general course of
action. When the management drafts a policy statement to cover some features of its personnel programmes,
the statement may often contain an expression of philosophy and principle as well. Although it is perfectly
legitimate for an organization to include its philosophy, principles and policy in one policy expression.
Why organizations adopt personnel policies explain the benefits?
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- 3+ months ago by hamidiqbal
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- action, course, plan, draft, management, organization, statement
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A policy centralizes control and rejects the judgment of managers who supposedly were hired specfically to judge things. For example there is the story of a train that developed a fire in a wheel bearing, which is normally not a big deal. Because company policy forbade to move a train while it was on fire, and the crew could not get access to the wheel while it was on a bridge, the bridge burned and the train fell and a large part of the cargo was damaged. But nobody was embarrassed because they all followed the policy. The main benefit of policy is that it avoids embarrassment, even if it is utterly stupid.