Policy Development
Delivering the information your employees need to know
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Your HR Business Solution helps you create an Employee Handbook that is integral to your employee relations philosophy, essential to your employee communications, and crucial to your development of an effective, safe, and legal work environment.
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An Employee Handbook of policies, procedures and benefits exists to ensure compliance with your organization’s legal requirements and to create a transparent, fair workplace. If you don’t have one, you need one. And once you have one, it needs to be reviewed and updated once per year.
What should your Employee Handbook do?
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Acquaint all employees with the company’s culture, mission, and values
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Communicate to employees what is expected of them.
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Tell employees what they can expect from management and leadership
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Showcase the benefits that your organization provides.
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Communicate key company policies clearly and consistently
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Maintain compliance with current federal and state laws
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Protect the company against employee claims
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Inform employees as to where they can go for help
What You Can Expect the process to be:
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Initial meeting with you, the client, to review current handbook status and what keeps you up at night! What is missing or, if you have no handbook at all, start from scratch and brainstorm ideas. Are there graphics you want to include that show off your business? Include Mission and Vision statement, brand images or the image you want to portray, welcoming thoughts from business to new hires. Review current hot topics to include in handbook that you may not have thought of or keep you legally compliant.
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Takeaway ideas and generate policies to include in handbook, (some back and forth may be required via email or Teams to ensure content is correct).
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Second client meeting in person to review progress and work to edit policies to match your needs perfectly!
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Revise as needed
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Third Client meeting to review final product and ensure all polices are correct and ready to go.
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Revise as needed
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Turn final product over to client in the format the client requests.
It’s more than the basic employment information!
The Employee Handbook can be part of your brand story, and has the power to reinforce the employee’s decision to work with your company. It is integral to your employee relations philosophy, essential to your employee communications, and crucial to your development of an effective culture and work environment.
An Employee Handbook can be an effective tool for communicating with new hires or the existing workforce. In most cases, the handbook is the first opportunity to provide written information to employees regarding the culture and work environment in which they will be spending much of their time. It is also the quickest, easiest, and most organized way for employers to consistently deliver critical information.
The employee handbook is the “go to”guide for employees to do their research and obtain answers. Since many (if not the majority) of personal issues experienced by employees are unique, it may give them the chance to clarity their questions and issues before approaching their supervisor, manager, or Human Resources.
Every organization should give the Employee Handbook the time it deserves. A good handbook demonstrates the respect and care that the employer has for its employees, and it communicates policies and procedures in a way that contributes to effective performance with less stress. Employees are important stakeholders within the company and deserve to be treated as such. A good Employee Handbook can do just that.
We want you to be truly satisfied, and feel we are a business partner to help you and your business successfully have a handbook that reflects “who you are to the world”. Anything less than you expect is not a successful endeavor. We collaborate fully to get the client what they want and need.