Employee Handbooks: Critical Issues in 2021

         After running a successful "Employee Handbooks: Critical Issues in 2021" we got loads of requests for the same for 2019. Around March of 2021 is the right time to update your employee handbook.

         From a management perspective, employee handbooks are taking on new importance. Your organization increasingly needs to ensure that it properly communicates key issues that encourage positive employee performance; that it describes the value and importance it receives from positive employees’ activities; and that it helps market the benefits of employment with your organization. Increasingly you will be answering the question: Why should employees work for you.

         Unfortunately, a nationwide survey of employers showed that while organizations use employee handbooks to address key business, legal, and talent management challenges, they have limited the effectiveness of their handbook policies by using ineffective handbook practices. As the survey report noted, in many organizations there is a disconnection between the drafting and issuing of handbook policies and the practices that ensure those policies are effectively implemented. These issues will become more important - and a greater liability in 2021.

This webinar on "Employee Handbooks: Critical Issues in 2021" reviews key employee handbook issues and discusses how your organization can reduce the gap between policy issuance and effective implementation.

Thus to increase the effectiveness of your employment policies, your organization will have to:

• 1) Enhance its business, operational, and legal intelligence to ensure it has identified the changing external and internal factors that affect its policies
• 2) Increase internal stakeholder participation in the handbook development process to obtain greater employee commitment and operational alignment
• 3) Establish new metrics to assess handbook policies and practices performance and measure the achievement of the organization’s goals and
• 4) Implement internal controls that identify and alert management when employee handbook processes fail.

• Review the key findings of the recent employee handbook survey
• Review the basics of employee handbook development
• Discuss the expanding purposes and scope of employee handbooks
• Learn the dimensions of critical handbook policies
• Understand the framework of employee handbook audits activities
• Develop employee handbook Key Performance Indicators

This will benefit a wide array of Professionals such as:

• HR Professionals
• Operations managers
• External and Internal Auditors
• CEO's and CFO's
• Risk Managers