Updating Our HR Policy

September 19, 2008 | By | In Management

Sometimes, you find a product that makes you ask “why didn’t I see that 3 years ago?” or “Where was that when I needed it?”.

Here’s a story for you. A few years ago, the group management team and the retail outlet managers spent an entire afternoon reviewing, and giving input on how we can update our human resources policies and procedures. It was an important issue, but it sure made for a long afternoon. That long afternoon dragged on into the evening.

When the meeting was over, I was appointed to oversee the revision of our company’s HR policies. That meant reviewing the entire manual for the company. Some of the policies were 10 years old, and we’ve stopped using them years ago. Can you imagine doing everything from scratch? We had to review, rewrite, re-type every single thing. Sure, we had a great team, but I still had a retail outlet to manage. I still had to do 20 million in sales.

Recently, I came across a product called Instant HR Policies and Procedures. It is a set of templates that covers everything in HR matters. Everything from staff benefits, performance reviews, code of conduct, etc.

Let me tell you, if I had a set templates like that, the job would have been completed in half the time. We had to research and test every proposal we came up with. At that time, getting information or examples wasn’t easy. It’s not like we could buy it of the shelf, and most companies won’t even think about letting us see what they were using. I suspect that not very many companies have a clear-cut, documented and up-to-date HR policy and procedures.

If you’re interested in this great product, read about it here.

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