Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Rule Deviation

All rules, regulations, laws, standards or mandatory practices suffer from people deviating, dodging, ignoring, working around, cheating, willful ignorance or simply not comprehending them.  Rule deviation is to be expected.  In fact in some cases rule deviation should be encouraged.  Virtually all rules should be broken at some time or another.  One of the primary goals of the risk manager is to set up a set of rules that encourage compliance when appropriate (obviously most of the time) and deviations when exceptions warrant them.  Rules without allowance for deviations is firstly not good risk practice and secondly just plain naïve.

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