I have heard it said that policies are the "scar-tissue" of an
organization. In other words, if you want to know where the problems are,
go look at the policy manuals. There will be many band-aid fixes or rule
changes which were designed to (try) to solve systemic problems in a quick
way.
I don't know what this has to do with management commitment however - is
this a new thread or what Rick?
[Host's Note: I made it a new thread. ...Rick]
On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Ben Compton wrote:
> OK, I overstated the point. Maybe they're not "proportional" but the
> reason many policies exist is to ensure uniform behavior, a necessity
> since people do have different values which get translated into different
> behaviors.
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