In a coporate environment, employees baulk at some seemingly inflexible policies or guidelines. For ex. rules relating to work hours, dress code etc may seem rigid, especially to Gen Y (or is it Gen Z ??)
More often that not, most rules are grounded in unrefutable logic and common sense. I remember (which company was it though), one firm had a rule that no two people in senior management should take the same flight, no matter what. This rule’s reasoning has been proven sound, in many instances where an unfortunate disaster has taken toll in the form of many members of the executive team.
In fact, fresh from a rather shocking experience where my laptop went kaput, I am contemplating framing a new one “Any laptop bought by the company should be the same model of at least one another” – you may laugh, but I was so relieved when I could just plug in the battery of another laptop to mine and get going with my work.
So, my take is this, let us give benefit of doubt to certain policies that a company may have internally. Let us reserve our spirit of breaking rules to other instances (more on that in my next post)
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Adding to Ramya’s thoughts, rules formed by the company may need to be followed because they are designed depending on the working style and type of the organization. But before using or reflecting someone’s system we need to give proper thought as we don’t know whether both the organizations or operating under the same circumstances.
Guidelines or rules imposed in an organization are done so with an objective to achieve something or to avoid something else. The reasoning behind such rules is what needs to be understood. Maybe then, they will be appreciated and followed.