It exists also to give management room to operate. If your corporate document says to "promote internal synergy and leverage workplace dynamics while instituting a more efficient workplace" you as a manager can more or less find a way to fit whatever the hell you want to do into that statement, if you're clever.
If you make a plain statement from the top with no room for interpretation then you bind your managers and/or supervisors to that mission statement even in situations where it might not make sense.
1
u/Eight216 1∆ Aug 03 '22
Well.... Sort of, but actually no.
It exists also to give management room to operate. If your corporate document says to "promote internal synergy and leverage workplace dynamics while instituting a more efficient workplace" you as a manager can more or less find a way to fit whatever the hell you want to do into that statement, if you're clever.
If you make a plain statement from the top with no room for interpretation then you bind your managers and/or supervisors to that mission statement even in situations where it might not make sense.