Open Door Policy for Business and Management
An open door policy guarantees that employees can go above their boss to seek assistance from the boss's supervisor. An open door policy provides employee access to any manager or supervisor including the CEO. I highly recommend that all organizations adopt and promote an open door policy that creates no repercussions for employees.
Want to bypass levels of management, strike fear in the hearts of supervisors, and undermine your chain of command? Adopt an open door policy that states any employee can talk with any level manager about any issue at any time. Isn't that the point of an open door policy, you may ask? My answer? Yes and no.
Your company has adopted an Open Door Policy for all employees. This means, literally, that every manager's door is open to every employee. The purpose of our open door policy is to encourage open communication, feedback, and discussion about any matter of importance to an employee. Our open door policy means that employees are free to talk with any manager at any time.
Key components of an open door management policy are discussed, including the impact of an open door policy on company communication.
Here is a sample open door policy for a manufacturing company. You need to register for Worforce to review the open door policy. It's free to register; I recommend Workforce to you as an excellent information source.
Take a look at a brief, sample open door policy from RLI.
Wellsley College has a commonplace, brief open door policy.
Central Parking's open door policy contains a complaint form for resolving issues the employee was unable to resolve with the supervisor.
