Do you actually think you understand your organization's RM policies?

Kevin · #1 07-15-2008, 05:57 PM

Are you 100% confident that your chapter has ever made it through a semester without doing something which might be thought of as violation of your organization's RM polices?

Do you think the way your policies are written that active members are really put on notice as to what they can and cannot do? Or are your rules so open to interpretation that they could mean just about anything?

DeltAlum · #2 07-15-2008, 08:29 PM

I doubt that my chapter or any chapter I've advised has ever made it through a school term without infringing on some Risk Management policy, although they are pretty well spelled out in several leadership guides and on our webpage. I wonder if any chapter does.

Most of the violations are not big ones -- but violations all the same.

I think I've got a pretty good handle on them -- or at least did when I was an advisor and division officer. I still have the written RM guides from then.

AGDee · #3 07-15-2008, 10:16 PM

I think ours are pretty clear *if they read them* and I'm well versed in them. I'm well enough versed that I sat at an "Ask the Expert.. Risk Management" table at our Convention this year. I take that to mean that some big squirrels believe I know what's going on.

KSigkid · #4 07-17-2008, 02:42 PM

I understood them when I was president of my chapter and an assistant alumnus advisor. If I remember correctly they were pretty clear and straightforward, but that might have been because the liability was hanging directly over my head.

fantASTic · #5 07-19-2008, 08:38 PM

I feel like they are well understood, and I also feel like our chapter is very good at avoiding violations.

preciousjeni · #6 07-19-2008, 10:32 PM

A number of our national documents underwent changes to take out the legalese and make them a lot more user-friendly. Our Risk Management Policy has been revamped recently to address some recurrent issues that were happening (nothing serious...but as DeltAlum said, violations are violations).

AnatraAmore · #7 07-19-2008, 11:21 PM

I feel like I am now... but our RM policies when I was an active were seen as more "open to interpretation" as collegians. As an advisor, I feel like many of the chapters I've worked with consider them to be that way, although if you read them they spell out pretty clearly what is and is not allowed.