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Standards in the company and their impact

Standards in the company and their impact

03/02/2023

What standards can a company have ⁉️

When a company is small and consists of a small number of people who, so to speak, fit in one office, then the need to formalize relationships is usually quite small. There are certain rules of work that they have agreed on. If necessary, they can meet again and negotiate again.

When a company employs more than 30-40 people, certain processes and procedures already need to be formalized. If this is not done, then the company starts into chaos. Because you can talk to a friend, who took it differently or forgot, or did not pass it on to the other in full. And the more people there are, the worse it gets. Therefore, there is a specific need to bring everything to a certain standard.

For example, EDS Ukraine has job folders and folders of full-time employees.
The full-time employee folder contains general documents that all employees should know. For example, the company's quality policy, Financial Reporting Policy, instructional letters, and the company goals.

Some people believe that the mission, the main goal, and so on are completely unnecessary things and need to understand their meaning and pay attention to them. This is the idea of the company, and thanks to this idea, the head of the company can understand whether he and the entire organization as a whole are going in the right direction. After all, in order to get where you want to go, you need to understand where you are going.

Achieving the main goal of the company is also a kind of project, one of those that the organization implements. The strategic goal specifies exactly what projects the company is implementing and what it is striving for.

The company also has a policy that specifies exactly when and which project is transferred to the manager. It is important that the project manager participates at the stage when the sales department prepares the contract and negotiates with the customer. Because the sales department performs a commercial function and does not understand all the details. And the sales department doesn't have the experience that a project manager has. And if the sales department operates separately from the manager, it may happen that the calculations were made incorrectly or incorrect technical decisions were made that cannot be implemented.

Also, some standards apply to all employees and some – only to certain specific specialists. For example, technical specialists have much more policies, including policies for generating costs and maintaining reports.