Successful policy based on transfer
Introduction
Policies are essential in either political, economic, or even in social sectors. Strategies are crucial to every success in the mentioned sectors. Successful systems are necessary for every field since they facilitate progress in the industries. Some various factors have facilitated successful policies, and the transfer factor is not an exception. For strategies to be successful, the transfer of policies has been the cause and source of success. It has been proved that successful plans are never developed in isolation but always involve transfer either from another country, another sector or even from a different area of the system (Constantelou, Audenhove and Bauer, 2010). Many states or sectors view the transfer of policies as a better idea for developing successful policies, unlike coming up with new policies that have not been used in any other part of the country since the new policies can be easily faced with many challenges leading to the failure of the policies. I personally prefer revision is always better than a purely new paper, and this idea makes me strongly agree that successful policies result from the transfer. This essay will critically discuss how successful policies result from transfer either from another country or other policies.
Discussion
In every field, either political, economic, or social, successful policies are vital in the running of the sector projects and its daily activities. For the policies to be a success, many factors can be considered, but the most effective method has proved to be the transfer method. This method involves the transfer of policies from one country to the other. This happens where the country can imitate another country’s policies in order to introduce it into their country, and this can lead to the policy being successful in the country ( Stone, 2017). This transfer from elsewhere may seem easy to do, but there are various steps that are put into use in order to make the transfer successful since the successful transfer will, in one way or the other, facilitate the success of the policy in the adopting country or sector. It has also been noted that not all successful policies are as a result of a transfer, but other policies are independent. Through the transfer of policy method, its adoption into the new country can be successful because of the following reasons;
Successful policies result from the transfer of learning from another institution or a country this is because the institution or the country evaluates the options which had worked in the other country and also evaluated the options that failed (McConnell, 2010). This makes it easy for the country adopting the policy to identify key areas which can fail in their policy and evaluated changes can be made to help curb or prevent the challenges that can arise from the failed part of the policy since they have an idea on the areas that failed in the country where the policy had been firstly implemented and also has views and strategies used by the other country in dealing with the problem. This creates a good strategy for the policy to be implemented effectively, and this leads to successful policies in the country since the strengths and weaknesses of the policy can easily be identified, and options to dealing with them are already at hand.
For policies to be successful, the transferor learning from elsewhere where the policy was initially used plays a crucial role. This is because the transfer makes the country have effective and efficient planning for the policy ( Pack and Saggi, 2006). This is achieved because the adopting country critically evaluates the other country’s policies before implementing them into their own country in either the political sector or even in the economic field. This gives the adopting country an opportunity to effectively and efficiently plan the policies that they want to implement. This leads to successful policies in the country since the adopting country compares the planning of the policy in the other country and this makes it easy for the new country to effectively plan for the implementation of the policy in their country since they have learned various ideas in how the same policy was effectively planned in the other country thus the transfer of learning from another country leads to successful policies in the new country or even a sector.
Every policy is known to have its own issues that affect it, and the transfer and learning from another institution or country makes the adopting country have a broader approach towards issues affecting the policy. This makes the country put up strategies that will help curb the known problems that are known to arise from the policy. This makes the adopting country be prepared and come up with broader approach in dealing with the issues arising from the policy since the adopting country or sector has a hint or an idea of the issues affecting the policy from the issues witnessed in the other country, and this makes the country be prepared to handle the issues (Stone, 2012). Through the transfer method, successful policies are implemented into the country, and this leads to success in the affected sectors since the country is determined not to fail in the area where the other country has failed, and this provides the country with a challenge that they need to counter and prove their capability in coming up with successful policies.
Transferred or learned policies into another country are mostly not affected by a denial from the country’s citizens, unlike newly created policies in the country that have never been implemented or used in any other part of the country ( Legrand,2012). People are always resistant to change since they view changes as a threat to their normal way of living. This makes adopted policies either from another sector or country be successful since the citizens are aware that the policy has been used by the other countries and they know the impacts that the policy impact on the country and this makes them accept the policy with no much problem unlike how it would have been if it was a new idea from their own country. This transfer method makes the policies successful, and the country will have no much time to convince its citizens that the policy will be of good help onto them and this saves time and this makes the country to have enough time to focus on the proper implementation and effective planning of the policies thus making the policy successful in the country since the policy has been accepted by the citizens.
In economic point of view, learning from elsewhere leads to successful policies in the adopting economic sector where the managers in the company or an organization will have easy time expanding their business in terms of the products to be supplied, the organization structure, organization behaviour that affects the progress and success of the company. Based on the economic pressures and rapid growth in communications in the economic sector, this forces the policymakers in the sector to establish the already used policies in another country and can implement them effectively, and successful policies will be established to help reduce the economic pressures (Mintrom and Norman,2009). Through the learning agenda, successful policies will be established, and this will effectively counter the economic pressures, thus leading to economic growth. The adopted policies will make the company compare its company’s both internal and external environment with that of the other country, and this makes them easily identify the change needed in their country compared to the advantage resulting from the implemented policy in the other company. Successful policies result from transfer and learning from elsewhere; for example, policies to address money laundering have been adopted by more than 170 countries in less than 20 years (Sharman, 2008). This makes the adopting company improve the learned policy in their own favour, and this facilitates the easy expansion of the company and easy ways of dealing with the challenges that result from the policy. Through this, policies adopted will be successful and will lead to great success in the company’s progress. For example, policies concerning the product branding where a certain company puts up its policies to market its brand name, another company can adopt that and use the policy effectively and efficiently, and this promotes the success of the policy. A company can also adopt other company’s policies based on the organizational structure and implement it in its own company since the company has knowledge of the importance of the policy used. Countries are also not left behind in adopting policies from other countries into their country on the basis of economic crisis. It has been noted that many countries economy is affected by various factors that interfere with the country’s economic growth. For instance, many successful central banks in various countries are as a result of learning from other countries, and the importance the central banks played during the crisis, for example during the U.K. crisis central banks played key roles in restoring the country’s economy and most countries learned from this and implemented central banks in their country (Marcussen, 2005).
Learning from elsewhere, especially in the political field has been of great help to any country. For instance, countries affected by political instability can easily identify policies used by another country that has faced political instability in the past, and whose policies were successful in one way or the other. Adopting a country can selectively choose the best policy that will provide the solution desired to solve political instability. This learning method will help the country implement the policies that will promote peace and stability in their country, and this will promote the success of the policies since the good evaluation of the policy will have been done, and any challenges that arise from the policy are easily dealt with. According to Wamai (2018), during a political crisis in Kenya that occurred in 2007, use of a mediator to solve the problem amicably were they involved Koffi Annan to help reduce political temperatures that had risen too high and resulted to many deaths, was the best policy that was applied and any country that can find itself in such crisis can transfer the mediator policy used by Kenya to help solve its political crisis and can be of great success in reducing the political crisis (Benson and Jordan, 2011). The use of the transfer method in solving political crises can be so effective and easily available since the country will only adopt the policy based on the importance it brought and the solution offered. This will help save time and reduce more political temperatures from increasing. This will lead to the successful implementation of the policies and quick provision of the solution. Transfer and learning from elsewhere either from another country is an important factor that any country can adopt into its country to help solve its political issues. For example, newly democratized countries imported electoral systems from other countries, and this became successful in their own countries (Norris, 1997).
Successful policies result from learning in one sector to the other since the learned ideas improve the innovation strategy of the country or a company where the learned policies make the company more innovative by the further implementation of the policies, and this promotes high innovative skills to help improve the adopted policies. This will lead to the higher success of the adopted policies leading to successful policies in the company through the application of transfer strategy, and the innovation of the adopted skills will lead to successful policies in either in a country or organization sectors.
Many sectors are interconnected, like the economic sector and the political sector. These sectors apply mostly the same policies since they all work hand in hand towards improving either the country’s economy or the sector’s progress. Transfer of learning between these two sectors can be of great importance in promoting successful policies in either of the sector. For instance, the economic sector can adopt policies from the political field which have been implemented in that sector and can further make it more successful in their economic sector, thus leading to successful policies in the sector (Woolthuis, Lankhueiz, and Gilsing, 2005). These policies are only successful in the adopting sector because of the transfer method where the adopting sector identifies strategic plans that it can put into use in order to make the policy more successful in its own sector since it can easily identify the strengths and weakness of the policy and can implement it effectively. Implementation is easier than setting up new policies in the sector, and its success will be easily achieved. Successful policies in these interconnected sectors are mostly because of the transfer agenda.
Conclusion
Successful policies are important aspects of every organization. The success of the policy determines the success of either the project in both the economic and political sectors. The success of most policies is depended on the transfer of knowledge from either another country, another sector, or even from a different area of policy. The success of the policy has been effective through the transfer since the adopting country can easily develop a broad aspect of dealing with the challenges that the policy had encountered in the other country or sector before implementing it into their country. This makes the adopting country prepare itself well and set up effective strategies that will help the country curb or even prevent the occurrence of the same challenge that faced in policy in another country from getting entrance into their own country. This makes the country or sector come up with policies that are successful, and this promotes growth in both the adopting country or even in the sector. Successful policies result from the transfer method because the adopting sector can effectively and efficiently plan for the policies they want to adopt from another sector, and this makes the country set up effective strategies that will favour the policy, and this makes the country have an effective plan for the policy thus promoting the success of the policy through the transfer method. In conclusion, I strongly believe that successful policies do not develop in isolation but the transfer of the policy from one country to the other or even from one sector to the other.
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