As in any growing company, there are far too many decisions for just one person to make. And, you need to spend your time on moving your business forward not putting out fires or writing time consuming memos and announcements. The answer lies in having a well-developed human resource policy manual that will:

• Outline a clear explanation of the rules that govern work in your company;
• Provide a critical tool for promoting better understanding between what people do in the workplace;
• Standardize management practices to ensure consistent and impartial administration of applicable labour laws; and
• Reduce your risk of alleged personnel violations.

Legacy Bowes Group’s HR consultants will design and develop a policy manual to suit the size and complexity of your company. First, we will identify those policies that will ensure your company is in compliance with local labour law, and we will then identify additional specific policies that will clearly outline the rules you want your employees to follow. These could include such policies as personnel files, employee status, leaves of absence, vacation, sick leave accrual, health insurance benefits, training, attendance, probationary period, and/or dress code. Finally, we will assist you to develop a communication plan that will facilitate implementation throughout the company.

Assessing existing policies and procedures is an important part of fine tuning your company. Fair, transparent and consistent corporate policies are a must in today’s marketplace. Policies which de-motivate your team, or worse motivate them to be inefficient, only foster the time clock going off in your team to moving on. Moreover, policies must stay in line with the most current government regulations. Procedures which are inefficient, ineffective or simply out-of-date cost you time and money. Most importantly, new technologies may exist to revolutionize your procedures. An impartial, efficient third party assessment of your internal policies and procedures could go a long way towards saving your team time and immediately impact your bottom line.

Drafting and writing a policy manual is a time consuming project but if you want to ensure your company’s sustainability, speed up decision making, improve productivity and ensure consistency in management practices, call one of Legacy Bowes Group Human Resource Consultants at 204-943-0553. After our initial meeting, we will provide a detailed proposal that outlines objectives, consultant/client responsibilities, project deliverables and proposed fees.