ORGANIZATION POLICIES

A social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals.

Organization Policies

The policies of the organization are guides to lead the actions, they are general guidelines to observe in making decisions about a problem that is repeated over and over again within an organization.

Classification of policies

Strategic or general

Departmental or Tactical

Operational or Specific

External

Consulted

Formulated

Implicit

They are formulated at the level of senior management and its role is to establish and issue guidelines to guide the company as an integrated unit.

They are mainly applied in decisions that have to run on each of the units that comprise a department.

They are specific guidelines that refer to each department.

Usually within a company there are sporadic acts that lead to that staff have to appeal to immediate boss in order to solve a problem, thereby giving rise to these policies.

In the daily activities of a company, staff faces decision situations where there is no previously established policy.

When originate outside the company by external factors; as competition, government, unions, suppliers, customers, etc.

Are issued by various higher levels, in order to guide the correct action and decision of the staff in their activities.

Types of policies in an organization

Sales Policies

Staff Policies

Policies for selection and training of personnel

Remuneration Policies

Production Policies

Environment Policies

Integrity

Information Security

Social Responsibility