Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
An Employee Handbook is an effective tool to communicate and orient employees to your company’s beliefs and performance expectations. It is an excellent way to describe your mission statement, code of ethics, policy on discrimination, sexual harassment, and other important policies affecting the employment relationship.
The handbook should cover everything an employee needs to know to ensure a successful career at your company. In addition to the above, it shold also include a description of work hours, overtime pay, vacation policy, holidays, dress code, employee hygiene, employee benefits, a glossary of terminology important to your business, and an organization chart.
By providing an employee handbook you do not want to give the impression that you are guaranteeing lifetime employement. The handbook should cover all legal notification requirements to prevent lawsuits, but don’t try to spell out what an employee should do in every situation.
We’ll have an article coming out soon describing in more detail what an employee handbook should contain.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Recruiting, hiring, and retaining talented employees are keys to operating a small business. How an employer goes about doing this is paramount if he/she wants to have the right players on their team.
In college football, coaches recruit by position and have a clear picture in their minds of the skill level of the players they are looking for in each position. Much of this is based upon the coach’s philosophy and style of play. If they are looking to build a strong defense against the run they recruit players that can defend against the run; similarly if they focus on defending against the pass, they recruit players who can defend against the pass.
In business recruiting the right players requires the owner to known his job positions, skill levels required, and the results those positions should deliver. The owner must have a plan in mind of how to build a solid team of talented people. So many times we see owners hire someone because they like the person, with too little regard for the results they are looking to achieve. The key word here is results, not just fulfilling job duties and responsibilities, as presented in a job description. Stay tuned and we’ll talk about getting results and hiring to get results in future blog.
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