Document Control | Report-1

Running head: DOCUMENT CONTROL
DOCUMENT CONTROL
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author notes

DOCUMENT CONTROL1
Table of Contents
Policies related to document controls........................................................................................2
Document life cycle...................................................................................................................2
Treatment of E-documents.........................................................................................................3
Recommended tools...................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

DOCUMENT CONTROL2
Policies related to document controls
The policies that are related to document related control are bulleted as under.
 Document management policy aids to provide guidelines to the company by
documenting the principals for the management official documents. This policy
improves the database management of the firm.
 Document management policy establishes a rule across the organisation related to
prioritisation, classification and retention of the document.
 Document retention policy establishes and describes that how the employees of the
company should manage companies data from creation through destruction.
Document retention policy reduces and legal risk and discovery cost of a company
(Koekemoer & Von Solms, 2018).
 Document retention policy noted that when developing a firm’s document retention
policy, unimportant papers must be disposed-off in a manner.
 Archival policy is a policy, which enables effective control of the document. This
policy aids organisation to manage its records and documents of the management.
Archival policy and secures the document of the organisation (Allen et.al., 2019).
Document life cycle
 The first stage of document life cycle is creation where the document is created for
the use of the organisation. This process involves conversion, digitalizing and
indexing of the document.
 The next stage is management where documents are managed and stored. The stored
document can further be accessed and retrieved for various purpose.
 Further, the documents administered by the administration. In this stage, the
documents are used to manage users, resources and content types.