Your Business NEEDS an Employee Handbook
Tammy Haggerty
Community Leader Committed to Mentoring Small Businesses | Founder at Jacob Matthew Jewelers
Do you ever wish you had a handbook for life? Well, that doesn't exist. But what is important is that you have a handbook for your business. What do I mean by that? Whether you're a business of one employee or a hundred employees, you need to have a handbook to protect your business, to protect yourself, and to protect your employees.?
Mission Statement
What should be in your handbook? First of all, it is your mission statement for your business that's on the front page. How do you want your business to run? What is important to you??
Employee Guidelines
The next thing that you should have in your business handbook are very clear guidelines on what is expected of your employees.? What time should they show up?? How many weeks of vacation do they get?? Are they getting a 401k?? Are they getting benefits??
All those things should be listed in there. Also about discrimination, and about the American Disabilities Act. All of these important things need to be in that handbook.
Making this Clear
Having a business handbook makes everything very clear to your employees.? We all get to know our employees and they become family.? You need to have that very clear line, so if something does go wrong, you can say to that employee that now feels like family that they are not following the guidelines in the handbook. It gives you something to go back to.?
Let me hear from you, do you have a handbook? Do you have one employee, or do you have a hundred employees?? Let's talk about this and let's talk about what's important in that handbook.