Talk:Open Door Policy
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Shouldn't there be a mention (or redirect to an article about) the other type of 'Open Door Policy', the organisational management one?
In brief (AFAIK) it's a policy of transparency and openness about the operation and actions of the organisation, often to the point of being intentionally entretched into the internal culture. It manifests in actions such as;
- being very willing to answer questions, or engage in public discussion,
- automatically publishing large amounts of info in the public arena (including stuff not normally seen to be of interest the the public, and materials that would otherwise be buried/withheld/censored),
- running information centres and public tours of facilities,
- actively pushing info into the public arena and actively encouraging public interest,
- sometimes (but not always) encouraging pride in the policy, rather than seeing it as 'something we have to do',
- the role of implementing the policy would often extend beyond the 'PR' departments and instead be a component of the roles of large sections of the workforce.
My personal experiences of it are with various British public utilities (i.e gov owned) in the 80's and 90's, particularly the electricity and nuclear power industries. For the ex-CEGB generation group, Nuclear Electric between 1991 and 96 the policy managed to boost the reputation and image of the plc (and the nuclear industry as a whole) from unwanted scrag-end to the point of being able to start the UK's 3rd major nuclear power programme. (Unfortunately as groundwork was underway for the 1st station (Sizewell C) and about to start on the 2nd, the plc's finances were frozen as part of privitisation.) --Myfanwy 00:41, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
Hey, sorry I'm not very familiar with how to undo vandalism so I just copy and pasted the old version. The user in offense is 68.51.192.6 Rrten00 04:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
This has been vandalized again, or any previous attempt to correct the vandalism has failed.
pa79th 22:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
