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The very thought of reviewing the policies and procedures manual at your job is depressing. It’s a huge book of rules that nobody can remember. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that even your manager knows the policies and procedures.

Keep It Simple

Policy and procedures are meant to keep the company safe from lawsuits and the employee clear on his or her role within the corporation.  However, many corporations still have a clunky black notebook full of pages and pages of rules that may or may not be current.  If the company has multiple locations with management in each office, chances are that policy and procedure manual is not current.

It’s smart to put these rules online so that anyone can get access to them quickly. When Human Resources makes an update, it’s immediate and company-wide. A good HR staff can keep these rules simple and to the point.

Standard Operating Procedures

Most corporations take the policy and procedure a step further, but actually, this extra step keeps the rules very easy to understand for the staff. This is called standard operating procedures. This can also be put online at the company’s internal website. These procedures are the basic, to the point, “how to” practices that instruct everyone in the company on how to run the business.

Corporations who take this extra step tend to have excellent human resources departments, and therefore, better employee relationships. No matter what the new economy brings to business, the employee will always be the most valuable resource.