Develop organizational policies or programs
Little of this can be handed to software today.
Software can assemble the case and recommend an answer, and that is genuinely useful. The decision stays with a person because someone has to be accountable for it. Treating the recommendation as the decision is how automation projects fail.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Judgment, authorisation and strategy |
| Jobs that do it | 31 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Models and routing |
| O*NET activity | Developing Objectives and Strategies (4.A.2.b.4) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 31 occupations that perform it.
- Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity.
- Establish or implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with board members, organization officials, or staff members.
- Formulate policies and procedures related to public information programs, working with public relations executives.
- Establish goals for soliciting funds, develop policies for collection and safeguarding of contributions, and coordinate disbursement of funds.
- Establish work procedures or schedules to organize the daily work of administrative staff.
- Develop, implement, manage, or evaluate policies and methods to protect personnel against harassment, threats, or violence.
- Develop and interpret organizational goals, policies, and procedures.
- Develop internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures for activities, such as budget administration, cash and credit management, and accounting.
- Develop, implement, or monitor security valuation policies.
- Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.
- Formulate policies, procedures and programs for recruitment, testing, placement, classification, orientation, benefits and compensation, and labor and industrial relations.
- Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, facility maintenance, and safety.
- Set educational standards and goals and help establish policies, procedures, and programs to carry them out.
- Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.
- Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
- Develop or implement policies, standards, or procedures for engineering and technical work.
- Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service.
- Establish policies on issues, such as the type of gambling offered and the odds, the extension of credit, or the serving of food and beverages.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for judgment, authorisation and strategy, and what it costs.
There is nothing here worth buying beyond a good assistant. Software assembles the case and recommends an answer, which any $20 assistant already does; the decision is yours, and no product on this page changes that.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Generalist agents
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
Step-by-step workflows that name this activity, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Others for judgment, authorisation and strategy
Who does this work
31 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Administrative Services Managers
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Chief Executives
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
- Compliance Managers
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- Food Service Managers
- Fundraising Managers
- Gambling Managers
- General and Operations Managers
- Investment Fund Managers
- Lodging Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Penetration Testers
- Public Relations Managers
- Purchasing Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
- Security Managers
- Social and Community Service Managers
- Treasurers and Controllers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop organizational policies, systems, or processes”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.