As a manager, do you think written procedures and guidelines are useful and have they helped you manage your area?

Its always a good practice to have a written procedure and guidelines in place for a routine and regular work, so that the work be done in a standard way...sure it is of useful and help manage things and at the same time need to act dynamically when there is a requirement and it is suppose to be one of the trait of the manager instantaneosly based on the required and need arises. Thanks.

Definately, SOP's (standard operating procedure) provide the process benchmark. They should be reviewed at least annually for current process changes and amendments.

the SOP is a valuable source document for training.

The SOP also provides a benchmark for when system or process fails and a quick reference of where to look for root cause.

agree with the experts..........

Thanks

I support the answer given. By colleague Gayasuddin 

I support the answer given. By colleague Gayasuddin. Thanks for your invitation.

Procedures and guidlines are important and very useful in managing any business. I agree with most of the answers provided  below.