The guidelines an organization establishes need not aim at forcing compliance to a list of regulations, but should have the goal of building personal and organizational pride. If a manager fails top establish standards, the employees will, and the results may be less than pleasing. Standards may encompass such things as ethics and morality, safety, dress, and performance.
Standards eliminate management pressures by eliminating personality from tough decisions.
Guidelines established for stating what management should reasonably expect an employee to do as a minimum provide a basis for business-like decision making. Standards serve as a covenant between an employee and his company or institution, based on understanding, good faith, and mutual commitment. Through this covenant, the institution guarantees the employee that, by upholding the standards, the employee will enjoy a certain quality of work environment and career opportunities. In turn, the employee will uphold the standards in order to enjoy the benefits those standards assure.