Many organizations don’t understand the differences between policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.
- Define and describe the differences between policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. For each, find and explain an example. This can be from your current/former workplace, school, ones you find on the Internet, or something fictional that would be applicable to each of the supporting mechanisms.
- Also, answer this question: does it matter if one company calls a policy a procedure and another calls it a standard? What can go wrong if this happens?