Which one of the following is false when it comes to designing strategy-facilitating policies and operating procedures?
A) More policies/procedures work better than few policies/procedures and strict enforcement of a weak policy always beats lax enforcement of a good policy.
B) Instituting strategy-facilitating policies can mean more policies, fewer policies, or different policies.
C) A useful guideline is to prescribe enough policies to give organizational members clear direction in implementing strategy and to place desirable boundaries on their actions, then empower them to act within these boundaries however they think makes sense.
D) The managerial role of establishing and enforcing new policies and operating practices is to paint a different set of white lines, place limits on independent behavior, and channel individual and group efforts along a path more conducive to executing the strategy.
E) One of the big policy-making issues concerns what activities need to be rigidly prescribed and what activities ought to allow room for independent action on the part of empowered personnel.
Answer: A