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Disadvantage: Creates Rigid Structure: 1) The Rigidity of Law

Organizational policies can create rigid structures that limit flexibility and quick decision making. The rules are inflexible and do not easily accommodate changes to business strategies or industry realities. Even terminating an underperforming employee requires following the formal process outlined in the policies. Developing comprehensive policies also requires substantial financial investment for research, writing, and legal consultation to ensure compliance with employment laws. Maintaining policies requires annual reviews and revisions to address changing legal standards, such as recent updates to sexual harassment policies.

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Disadvantage: Creates Rigid Structure: 1) The Rigidity of Law

Organizational policies can create rigid structures that limit flexibility and quick decision making. The rules are inflexible and do not easily accommodate changes to business strategies or industry realities. Even terminating an underperforming employee requires following the formal process outlined in the policies. Developing comprehensive policies also requires substantial financial investment for research, writing, and legal consultation to ensure compliance with employment laws. Maintaining policies requires annual reviews and revisions to address changing legal standards, such as recent updates to sexual harassment policies.

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Disadvantage: Creates Rigid Structure

One of the disadvantages of organizational policies is that the rigid nature of business
rules and regulations can make it difficult for you to implement changes. By their
nature, business rules tend to be inflexible and binary, which creates a rigid framework
for your employees. When you try to introduce something new within this framework,
you may discover that the rules in place prevent you from changing things to the
degree that you would like. It also limits your ability to make quick decisions or to
change your business strategy on the fly. In fact, you may have to revise some of the
existing rules to account for the changing realities of your industry. This can also
extend to human resources. For example, let’s say you have an employee that
consistently violates the rules. One of the unfortunate disadvantages of organizational
policies is that you can’t simply fire that employee without going through the formal
process outlined by your business rules.

Disadvantage: Financial Investment

Another of the disadvantages of workplace policies is the financial investment


necessary to establish the rules at your business. Whether you outsource the
development of your workplace policies, or you choose to assign this task in-house,
you will need to pay for research, writing, and legal consultation. One of the most vital
aspects of rules creation is ensuring compliance with all the federal, state, and local
laws related to employee privacy, safety, and health. But the disadvantages of
workplace policies don’t stop there. You must also review your rules and regulations at
least every year to ensure that you are still in compliance with all the changes that
may have taken place. Workplace policies are in constant flux as new legal language
is added to existing laws that could affect your business. For example, the recent
focus on sexual harassment in the workplace that was triggered by multiple incidents
involving Hollywood power brokers, has changed the way that small-business owners
handle this policy.

1) The rigidity of law:

An Ideal legal system keeps on changing according to the


changing needs of the people. But because of the rigidity of law, it is
unable to keep pace with the fast-changing society. There is always a gap
between the advancement of society and the legal system prevailing in it.
The lack of flexibility in law results in hardship and injustice to the
people.

2) Conservative Nature:
Another disadvantage of law is that its Conservative Nature. Law
is conservative in its approach. The Bar and Bench are generally
conservative in their approach to the dispensation of justice. The result
is is that very often the law is static. This is not conducive to a
progressive society.

3) Formalism :

The Law suffers from excessive formalism greater emphasis laid


on the form of law rather than its substance. Undue formalism causes
unnecessary delay in dispensation of justice.

4) Complexity :

Another disadvantage of law is its Complexity. It is true that every


law effort is made to make law as simple as possible but it is not
possible to make every law simple. That is due to the Complex nature of
modern society.

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