...The handbook will address the state and federal laws regarding nondiscrimination and health and safety laws. At the top of this section of the handbook it can be stated that the organization is an equal opportunity employer and is has made a solid commitment to hiring staff for our organization without the regard of religion, age, race, gender, or disability and that we do so by complying with all Federal regulations as well as with state legislation and regulations. Also in this section we will include the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fair Labor Standards Acts, Family Medical Leave Act, and a section outlining or describing the Occupational and Health Safety Administration and the standards OSHA enforces. In each section we will include a website where more information can be found for each topic. We will describe how the Americans with Disabilities Act ensures that those with a disability have equal rights and opportunity for employment and are not to be discriminated upon applying for employment. In this section we can outline the employers responsibilities regarding this act so that it covers the organization’s as well as the employee’s rights. For example we can add that if the organization has 15 employees or more that they are not to discriminate against an applicant that is qualified for the job they are applying for regardless of their disability. In the section for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission section...
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...Employee Handbook In this Employee Handbook, you will find our policies and procedures that are put in place to benefit both the employer and employee. The employee rules apply to all our employees and must be followed to maintain employment with the company. It will also cover the consequences and procedure that are in place to deal with any violations of the handbook. As with all things, we reserve the right to make changes as we see fit with proper notification to all employees. We may revise, add, or delete as necessary. If you need more information regarding anything in the handbook, please contact your Human Resource Manager. Privacy Rights Addressed Privacy will be honored on both the employer and the employee. All confidential material, such as your personnel file or payroll, will be kept private and only the necessary employees will have access. Any information that is released will be done on a need to know basis only. As an employee, it is your responsibility to maintain the privacy of our clients and any information you may receive throughout the workweek. You will also have information about our daily operations. These also are not to be shared with anyone. Depending on your position with our company, you may receive confidential information regarding other employees that is not to be shared with others. It is of highest importance that privacy is maintained during all aspects of work. Privacy Rights & Privacy Protection ...
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...Employee Handbook ABC Ltd. by BRIGHT CONTRACTS www.brightcontracts.ie Professional software that lets you create tailored employment contracts and sta handbooks. Handbooks do not replace contracts of employment and should be used in conjunction with a contract! WWW.BRIGHTCONTRACTS.IE - SAMPLE DOCUMENT Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome 1.2 Purpose of this Handbook 1.3 Company Background and Mission Statement 1.4 Employment Records 1.5 Data Protection 2 Company Policies and Procedures 2.1 Disciplinary Procedures 2.1.1 Purpose of Policy 2.1.2 Scope 2.1.3 Policy 2.1.4 O ences 2.1.4.1 Misconduct 2.1.4.2 Gross Misconduct 2.1.5 Procedures 2.1.5.1 Informal Counselling 2.1.5.2 Formal Disciplinary Procedure 2.1.5.2.1 The Investigation Procedure 2.1.5.2.2 The Disciplinary Procedure 2.1.6 Appeals 2.2 Grievance/Dispute Procedures 2.3 Bullying and Harassment Policy and Procedure 2.3.1 Harassment, Sexual Harassment and Bullying 2.3.1.1 Harassment 2.3.1.2 Sexual Harassment 2.3.1.3 Bullying 2.3.1.4 Lack of Respect 2.3.2 Procedures 2.3.2.1 Informal Procedure 2.3.2.2 Formal Procedure www.brightcontracts.ie · Handbook · Page 2 of 28 WWW.BRIGHTCONTRACTS.IE - SAMPLE DOCUMENT 2.3.2.3 Investigation 2.3.2.4 Outcome 2.4 Health and Safety Policy 2.4.1 Principles applying to Health and Safety 2.4.2 Accident Reporting 2.4.3 Fire 2.4.4 First Aid 2.4.5 Personal Protective Equipment 2.4.6 Smoke-free Workplace 2.5 Equality Policy 2.5.1 Introduction ...
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...Table of Contents * Introduction * Filling Vacancies * Appointment and probationary period for a new employee * Employee performance and development * Position Classification * Compensation * Insurance Benefits * Retirement Program * Additional Benefit Programs * Attendance and Leave * Indian Laws and State Policies * Safety and Health Programs * Employee Organisation * Prohibitions and Penalities * Employee Dispute Resolution * Seperations a. Resignations b. Layoff c. Discharge * Strikes against the company . INTRODUCTION Mapro Foods has a flat organisational structure where management and employees work hand-in-hand. The employee handbook provides a ready reference for new and experienced employees when questions arise relating to the Company’s policies, benefits and terms and conditions of employment.It is to make you familiarize with the with important information about the company, as well as provide guidelines for your employment experience with us in an effort to foster a safe and healthy work environment.It is intended o clarify that this handbook talks about Company’s Policies, practices , and benefits for your understanding and is not a legal document and is not subjected to act as a contract. It is obviously not possible to anticipate every situation that may arise in the workplace or to provide information that...
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...Employee Information Employee Handbook 3 Welcome to the Employee Handbook We are delighted that you are working with us and hope that you will find your job both challenging and enjoyable. All employees have a contract detailing terms and conditions relating to their own particular role. This handbook has been designed to give additional important and useful information about employment with us; our expectations of you and your colleagues and the benefits we provide. It is divided into two main sections: • • Section 1 – contains contractual entitlements which form part of your contract of employment. Section 2 – contains important information on the discretionary benefits available to employees and general information about your employment with Marks & Spencer. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the express written permission of Marks & Spencer p.l.c. Employee Handbook Contents Our People Principles 5-6 Reporting Accidents Personal Accident 7 7 7-8 9 10 11 11-12 12 13-14 14-15 16-18 19-20 20 Personal Life Assurance First Aid Regulations Handling Merchandise, Money & Equipment Personal Property Computer Security Whistle-blowing: Public Interest Disclosure Discrimination, Harassment, Bullying & Victimisation Standards of Conduct Misconduct Gross Misconduct Disciplinary...
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...Week Five Discussion Question 1 What components do you think are most important in a communication plan? What are the advantages of a formalized communication plan? What might happen if a consultant does not establish a communication plan with a client? In my opinion, the most important components in a communication plan consist of the measurable goals and objectives. The measurable goals are meant to express the end points towards the direct effortsof the project. The business consultant's communication plan should be outlined to help the client and the organization to communicate successfully and meet the core organizational objectives. The components include but not limited to help the organization achieve their overall objectives, engage adequately with stakeholders, deliver and demostrate the success of your project, ensure to the client and stakeholders you understand their business, and if necessary change behaviour and perceptions where necessary. One of the advantages of a communication plan it helps with communication between staff members, and helps to manage, create, and sustain organizational opertions. Sometimes if the business consultant does not establish a communication plan with the client many projects have problems and are not successful. Week Five Discussion Question 2 What are some strategies for building an emotional commitment to engagement on the part of the client? Which of these strategies are going to be the most effective for your project...
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...Text Version A Handbook for Measuring Employee Performance ALIGNING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE PLANS WITH ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS Workforce Compensation and Performance Service Executive Resources and Employee Development ■ Performance Management Implementation ■ September 2011 table of contents FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 contents CHAPTER 1 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Employee Performance Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER 2 DISTINGUISHING ACTIVITIES FROM ACCOMPLISHMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Beekeepers and Their Bees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Using Balanced Measures ................................................. Categories of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 18 CHAPTER 3 DEVELOPING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE PLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Step 1: Look at the Overall Picture ....................................... Step 2: Determine Work Unit Accomplishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...| EMPLOYEE POLICYHANDBOOK | C O M M I T M E N T | | REVISED ON28 February 2016 | | | THE MANDLEY GROUP | TABLE OF CONTENTS I. WELCOME 3 POLICY CHANGES/EMPLOYMENT-AT-WILL/EEO & ADA 5 II. EMPLOYMENT POLICIES 5 EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR EXPECTATIONS 5 DISCIPLINE POLICY 6 PENALITIES FOR SPECIFIC OFFENSES 7-9 SUSPENSIONS & INVESTIGATIONS 8-9 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT POLICY 9-10 PERFORMANCE REVIEW TEMPLATE 11-13 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TEMPLATE 14-16 RECEIPT OF EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK AGREEMENT & AT-WILL POLICY 17 WELCOME TO OUR ORGANIZATION Dear Employee: Welcome to our organization. We are pleased that you selected to serve the most deserving clients in the world. Your professional and personal contribution to our organization will make a difference. This employee policy handbook is not all inclusive and is designed to help you learn the basics about our organization and its policies. If you have any questions on the information provided, ask your immediate supervisor, or the Human Resources Office. We all must work together to maintain a highly productive and efficient organization and your commitment is required. If you have questions, ask. If you have concerns, voice them. If you have ideas, bring them forward. We are counting on you to make a difference. We sincerely...
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...Employee Handbook Organization: Mahmood Pipe Store Developed by: HR Department Dated: 10-Oct-2015 Scope: This Document with all its contents is necessary to be read thoroughly and followed by all employees of Mahmood Pipe Store. Changes in the document can be made with the mutual consent of Top- Management and HR Department and must be informed to all the staff respectively. Vision We envision to be the market leader in pipe industry by ensuring quality, innovation & style. Mission Our mission is to provide the potential customers with quality products in all ranges of sanitary fittings. Our goal is to ensure customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and follow the Islamic law in every aspect of our business. Organizational policies & rules Following are the company policies that employees should know about and follow. 1. Ethics Our business ethics includes three main things: * Honesty: * It is that every stakeholder of our business is supposed to remain honest in every aspect of life. This means we prefer honesty internally as well as externally in our business. * Mutual Respect: * We tend to and expect every stakeholder to believe on mutual respect because we believe it to be one of the basic human right. * Fairness: * By fairness we expect all the business dealing to remain fair and transparent and nothing is kept hidden until and unless damages the company’s brand worth. 2. Equal opportunity We believe in treating all the employees...
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...Employee Nondiscrimination Handbook Rebecca Sims, Kristi Jones, Ronza Wilkes-Hankinson, Lawanda Collins HCS/430 August 11, 2014 Employee Nondiscrimination Handbook The Employee Handbook in many organizations has in detail what is expected out of the employees in the workplace. The employee handbook covers annual, sick and personal leave, nondiscrimination laws and procedures, open door policy, information about filing complaints, employee benefits, other available benefits, and employee responsibilities. The most important thing that will and should be addressed in the workplace is nondiscrimination. Nondiscrimination is one of the most important aspects in many organizations and is also the number one topic that must be followed through to eliminate law suits and co When dealing with non-discrimination laws in a health care segment or any other work place there are procedures that have to be followed. Some of the non-discrimination issues that must be addressed within the health care organization and other work places and other places would be race, sex, national origin, disability, age, religious or political opinions, etc. Employees should not at any time use filing a complaint as a form of retaliation against another employee. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) have an unlawful Discrimination Complaint Procedure they use when processing unlawful discrimination or sexual harassment. The organizations...
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...Welcome Welcome to the Nirvana team. Nirvana has provided you with this handbook for you to use as a guide and to teach you about our company’s policies, benefits and rules. This handbook will help you help us create a safe work environment as it prepares you to know what to expect as you enter the work environment. This book is intended to give you a general overview of our company’s policies, benefits and rules and therefore is not considered a legal document. Mission Nirvana Boutique offers its clients a one-of-a-kind, personally tailored shopping experience. Our unique line of inventory is not available at any other retail outlet. It is our passion to expose our clients to a worldly array of clothing and accessories as we continue to be the leaders in the boutique industry. Policies Harassment Nirvana will not tolerate harassment of any kind, prohibited by law, including race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, handicap, disability, marital status, or veteran status. According to the The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment is defined as: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of...
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...Company X Employee Handbook Thongsee K. Robbins (WGU Student #) Western Governors University Table of Contents Part A: Standard and Procedures…………………..…………………………………………………………Page 2 Purpose of this Handbook………………………………………………………………………...…. Page 2 Change of Policy…………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 2 Employment Forms……………………………………………………………………………………..Page 2 Dress Code Policy……………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 2 Part B: Training…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 3 Frequency of trainings…………………………………………………………………………….…. Page 3 Specific content included in training program……………………………………………... Page 3 Duration of training program……………………………………………………….………….…. Page 3 Who will conduct/facilitate trainings? .................................................................................Page 3 How training(s) will be present to employees………………………………………….…...Page 3 Part C: Monitoring, Auditing & Reporting………………………………………………………………..Page 4 Monitoring employee misconduct……………………………………………………………….Page 4 Auditing employee misconduct……………………………………………………………………Page 4 Reporting employee misconduct…………………………………………………………………Page 4 Part D: Evaluate & Review the program after implementation………………………………….Page 5 Develop a plan……………………………………………………………………………………………..Page 5 Review and evaluate the effectiveness of ethics program………………………………Page 5 Suggestions to improve the ethics program after implementation……………...….Page...
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...including: Published annually. Based on the current standards and requirements provided by AICPA, the reference book will create or upgrade the latest information a new edition every year. It includes all the situations that happen in business and the proper way to solve these problems. Enhanced Job Performance. The content in this book is divided into several parts, and its unique modular format makes people easy to find the situations they meet in business. Some of latest information which is not free to download also can be found in this reference book. It reduces the times of looking for and purchasing sources on the Internet, thereby saving time for employees who work in financial department. Develop abilities. The book also is a handbook for those people who want to take CPA exams, and our company will advance if there are more professional employees in the financial department. The more professionals we have, the higher reputation our company has in the same industry. Conclusion This book has the most effective system available to solve accounting problems, which has been proven for over thirty years, and it is worth...
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...Cultural and Relationship Values Memorandum and Employee Handbook Memorandum TO: All Employees SUBJECT: Employee Handbook FROM: Boardman Management Group DATE: November 24, 2014 The purpose of this memorandum is to explain the reason behind designing the employee handbook that is attached. Subjects discussed include explaining the value and team-based culture, the mission statement, the main areas covered in the handbook and how this handbook will move us forward. The handbook will also cover employer responsibilities and employee rights. The company is a value and team-based culture. Baderman Island Resort aims to please the customers who cause employees to stretch the rules at times to make the guests comfortable. The company also conducts random acts of kindness, which also support a value-based culture. Boardman Management Group empowers its employees, which encourages a team experience as they consider all employees as family. The values of the company are articulated through the mission statement. The mission statement reads “…dedicated to managing leisure and convention focused resorts that provide a unique and quality experience to guests and visitors. The Board of Directors and operational leaders in the organization, empowers its staff to offer unsurpassed quality of customer service, through individual acts of random kindness and specialty services” (Boardman Management Group, 2012, p. 1). This mission statement reflects that the company is a value and...
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...work MGT 434 Week 5 Team Assignment Employee Handbook Assignment you can find the review on following aspects: Employee Handbook Legal Consideration Addressing Performance Issues Ethical Considerations Access to Personnel Files Protection of Practice and Patient Information Identification Visitors/Meetings Monitoring: - Mail/E-Mail - Telephone/Voicemail - Internet Employment Practices Pre-Employment Physical and Drug Screen Pre-Employment Background Checks Conclusion References Business - Management Learning Team Assignment: Employee Handbook Assignment Prepare a 1,500-to 2,050-word document in which you create a representation of actual sections ( privacy, employee testing, ethics and performance evaluation s) of an employee handbook (private sector). Note. The handbook must be original student content and work. In addition to describing the company to which the employee handbook applies, also address the issues of privacy, employee testing, ethics and performance evaluation s in the global workplace. This assignment must include , but is not limited to, the following questions in drafting your handbook sections: What privacy rights issues must be addressed? What must the company’s position be in response to privacy rights issues? How do your privacy protections limit the company’s liability? How do your privacy protections enhance employee motivation and productivity? ...
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