The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Engaging Employees in Benefits, Pay, and Performance

12. Policies

In this chapter, you learn how to

• Describe policies in conversational language that’s easy to understand

• Organize an employee handbook to describe all your company policies

• Bring policies to life

• Help employees navigate those times when a number of benefits and policies intersect

When it comes to aspects of your job that make you jump out of bed in the morning, we bet that “communicating policies” doesn’t make the list. Yet you’re well aware of how important it is for employees to understand and follow HR policies such as paid time off and dress code. The challenge is that communicating about policies is always a balancing act. On one hand, policies have to be simple enough to be easily understood and acted on. On the ...