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The Everything HR Kit
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The Everything HR Kit

by John Putzier, David Baker
August 2010
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 48m
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 11

Employee Handbooks

TWO VERSIONS FOR TWO DIFFERENT PURPOSES

Why in the world would you want to have two different employee handbooks? Remember the primary purpose of new employee orientation and bringing on board? To instill values!

The standard employee handbook does not accomplish that goal. Most employee handbooks are boring, legalistic documents full of heretofores and here-inafters, full of don’ts and shoulds, with a form that is signed in duplicate to confirm that the new employee has actually read the handbook and understood it, and is then filed in his personnel folder. Now, isn’t that a warm and fuzzy welcome?

Not in lieu of, but in addition to the “formal” handbook (a template for which is on the CD), we need to have a ...

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