Open Door Policy

Examples of Open Door Policy in the following topics:

• The Open Door Policy

• The Open Door Policy

  • The Open Door Policy aimed to keep the Chinese trade market open to all countries on an equal basis.
  • The "Open Door Policy" refers to a U.S. doctrine established in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, as expressed in Secretary of State John Hay's "Open Door Note," dated September 6, 1899, and dispatched to the major European powers.
  • As a response, William Woodville Rockhill formulated the Open Door Policy to safeguard American business opportunities and other interests in China.
  • The Open Door Policy stated that all nations, including the United States, could enjoy equal access to the Chinese market.
  • Although treaties made after 1900 refer to the Open Door Policy, competition among the various powers for special concessions within China for railroad rights, mining rights, loans, foreign trade ports, and so forth, continued unabated.

• Interactive Leadership

  • To underscore a commitment to openness and to build trust, an interactive leader freely shares information rather than keeping it as a basis of power over others.
  • They also make themselves visible and accessible to followers; some maintain an "open-door" policy to signal that they are open to dialogue and hearing from others.

• Complaint Procedures

  • Open-book management empowers employees with the information they need to see the reality of the organizational situation and to give relevant and helpful input (Case, 1997).
  • Similar to open-book management are open-door policies, where management makes it clear that employees can informally raise issues or give input at any time.
  • Feedback programs, sometimes implemented in the form of employee surveys or through direct employee-management interaction, can be a less expensive way to get feedback from employees concerning specific programs or policies (Solnik, 2006).

• Upward Communication

  • Managers who are open to and encourage upward communication foster cooperation, gains support, and reduces frustration among their employees.
  • For example, an open-door policy sends the signal to employees that the manager welcomes impromptu conversations and other communication.

• Providing employee voice and influence

  • Many managers recognize the importance of giving their employees a voice, but often this open communication does not result in authentic employee involvement or influence on the actual decision making process (Golan, 2003).
  • Open book management empowers employees with the information they need to see the reality of the organizational situation and to give relevant and helpful input (Case, 1997).
  • Similar to open book management are open-door policies, where management makes it clear that employees can informally raise issues or give input at any time.
  • The open-door policy page on the Central Parking Corporation website provides an example of such a policy and the procedures employed by the company for submitting and receiving employee input (Central Parking Corporation, 2004).
  • Feedback programs, sometimes implemented in the form of employee surveys or through direct employee-management interaction, can be a less expensive way to get feedback from employees concerning specific programs or policies (Solnik, 2006).

• Direct Techniques

  • Revolving door, when a former federal employee becomes a lobbyist and vice-versa, occurs in the direct lobbying sector.
  • The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act was signed on September 15, 2007 by President Bush, amending the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
  • Revolving door is a term used to describe the cycling of former federal employees into jobs as lobbyists, while former lobbyists are pulled into government positions.
  • The other form of the revolving door is pushing lobbyists into government positions, developing connections, and returning into the lobbying world to use said connections.
  • Identify the direct techniques used by interest groups to influence policy and what groups would use them

• Which Methodology is "Correct?"

  • Ignorance of methodology dooms an individual to perpetual training and re-training rather than opening the door to education.
  • In economics, the methods used and ideological preconceptions of individual economists and schools of thought help to explain many of the differences in explanations of problems and policies advocated.

• Introduction to Index Numbers

  • For example, we could distinguish between door1 (pronounced "door sub one") and door2 (pronounced "door sub two"), if we noticed that sometimes the word door refers to an opening in a wall through which one can go, and other times it refers to the object used to block up that opening so that one cannot go through!

• Vending Machines

  • After paying, a product may become available by: the machine releasing it, so that it falls in an open compartment at the bottom, or into a cup, either released first, or put in by the customer; the unlocking of a door or drawer; or the turning of a knob.
  • After a sale, the door automatically returns to a locked position.
  • A customer could open the box and take all of the newspapers or, for the benefit of other customers, leave all of the newspapers outside of the box, slowly return the door to an unlatched position, or block the door from fully closing.