policy cycle

Organizational policies should be reviewed on a regular cycle so they reflect current business realities, clarify accountability, and stay aligned with changing conditions.

A policy manual gives employees and managers one dependable place to find the principles that guide company policies, business processes, employee expectations, and organizational performance standards. Without that top level reference, individual policies and associated procedures tend to drift into departmental habits, old templates, and verbal rules that are hard to train, audit, or improve. […]

The best policies give everyone in the organization a sense of purpose and direction.

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Everyone has to deal sooner or later with policies that are so poorly written, they’re without meaning and validity; in short, they’re unenforceable.