Policies and Procedures

With TKO (Turn-Key-Operation) Business Modeller software the challenge of policy and procedure manuals is made easy.

TKO will enable you to create, edit, publish and review your business policy and procedures manuals easily and efficiently.

Using the revolutionary TKO (Turn-Key-Operation) Business Modeller software you will be able to create policy and procedure manuals for any or all areas of your business easily. All your manuals will be professional and enable your employees to access exactly what they need via several different output methods ensuring that all your business systems are carried out exactly as each procedure states.

With TKO you will also have the option to choose from hundreds of professionally written documents, forms and videos. Your policy and procedures manual will be theultimate resource for your business.

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What is a Policy and Procedure

Policies and procedures are a significant part of a business operation. The power of policies and procedures if created and reviewed correctly is such that once they are made available to staff, policy and procedures can clarify their position within the business and ensure that the owners and managers of a business can control the way all tasks are carried out. Businesses using TKO (Turn-Key-Operation) Business Modeller software for managing all their policy and procedure documents will be able to deliver to staff at induction all the relevant documents to each individual easily to ensure tasks are carried out according to the policy and procedure of that activity.

So what are they? Policies reflect the "rules" governing the implementation of business processes. Procedures, on the other hand, represent an implementation of policy and should evolve over time as new tools emerge, new processes are designed, and the risks associated with an area changes in response to internal or external environmental changes.

So what are they? They reflect the "rules" governing the implementation of business processes. They should evolve over time as new tools emerge, new processes are designed, and the risks associated with an area changes in response to internal or external environmental changes.

In fact, there should be an expectation that individuals will “challenge” outdated procedures and call them to the attention of their owners. As a consequence, rather than combine “policies,” “procedures,” and “guidelines” in a single document, it is recommended that - as a general rule - policies and procedures appear as separate documents.

Wikipedia definition of Procedure:

A procedure is a specification of the series of actions, acts or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to obtain always the same result in the same circumstances (for example, emergency procedures). Less precisely speaking, this word can indicate a sequence of activities, tasks, steps, decisions, calculations and processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the described result, product or outcome. A procedure usually induces a change.

Procedure may also refer to:

Instructions or recipes, a set of commands that show how to prepare or make something
Subroutine or method (computer science), a portion of code within a larger program
Algorithm, in mathematics, a sequence of operations or calculations that accomplish some goal
Surgical procedure, in medicine, treating diseases through an operation; see also List of surgical procedures
Legal procedure, in law, the body of law and rules used in the administration of justice in the court system
Civil procedure, criminal procedure, administrative procedure, labour procedure
Parliamentary procedure, in government, the process used for decision making by a legislative assembly

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