HR Services
HR policies and procedures are a very important aspect of the workplace. HR Policies provide guidance to management, provide a roadmap for day-to-day operations, ensure that organizations comply with government regulations and mandates, give guidance for decision-making, streamline internal processes. They also offer protection by ensuring consistency and eliminating subjectivity. While procedures spell out precisely what action should be taken in line with the policies.
The Value of Our HR Services
Having well-developed policies and procedures can provide the following benefits to your workplace:
- They help employees know what is expected of them with respect to standards of behavior and performance.
- Employees know what action to expect in circumstances covered by the policies.
- They set rules and guidelines for decision-making in routine situations so that employees and managers do not need to continually ask senior managers what to do.
- They help you to adopt a consistent and clear response across the company to continually refer to situations involving employee interaction.
- They allow you to demonstrate good faith that employees will be treated fairly and equally.
- They allow you to have an accepted method of dealing with complaints and misunderstandings in place to help avoid bias.
- They give you a means of communicating information to new employees.
- They offer you protection from breaches of employment legislation.
- Ensure prompt action for taking decisions because the policies serve as standards to be followed. They prevent the wastage of time and energy involved in repeated analyses for solving problems of a similar nature.
Solutions
The following areas aim to achieve the required level of standardization and professionalism in executing
and adhering to these policies across the organization:
Manpower Planning
The purpose of the policies and procedures in this section is to set the controls and guidelines used to estimate the numbers, types, and levels of job holders needed by each department to implement business plans; identify expected vacancies; and determine how vacancies are to be filled.
Recruitment and Selection
Is to set the controls and guidelines used to find, attract, and hire the highest caliber of staff for vacant positions at the organization, ensuring that the recruitment is duly authorized and consistent with approved manpower plans, and employs only applicants who will meet the job requirements.
Compensation and Benefits
Is to set the controls and guidelines used in setting compensation and fitment rules applicable to maintain employee compensation and benefits at a level sufficient to attract and retain staff of the caliber required for achievement of Company’s business objectives, and to motivate employees’ performance and development by relating the financial rewards of each employee to the value of the employee’s contribution to the success of the business of Company.
Performance Management
Is to govern Company’s philosophy of managing the performance of individuals, providing performance feedback and to enable personal development planning. There are three aspects to the performance management activity namely expectation/ goal setting, performance evaluation, and personal development planning.
Training and Development
Will enable employees to achieve personal career ambitions by continuously developing their competencies and skills; which will enable higher levels of performance for achieving employee development while fulfilling business needs of company.
End of Employment
The purpose of the policies and procedures in this section is to set the controls and guidelines used to govern all cases related to employee’s end of employment. The process involves managing resignation, end of contract, and termination.
Succession Planning
Is to ensure the availability of a pipeline of successors for critical positions, through identifying the needs, identifying the potentials, conducting assessment, developing a pipeline of successors, and deploying the plan. Succession planning ensures continuity of organizational success.
Leaves Management
The purpose of the policies in this section is to set the controls and guidelines used for different kinds of leaves entitled to employees
Personnel Administration
Is to govern the employees’ personnel files maintenance, monitoring working time and attendance, disciplinary and grievance procedures followed by Company and standards of business ethics/ conflict of interest situations. Also, these policies set the guidelines to voluntary and involuntary employee transfer, redeployment and separation.
Employee Handbook
An employee handbook serves as the foundation for the policies within which companies operate. In creating and revising handbooks to inform employees of benefit packages, answer frequently asked questions and provide a strong legal defense in the event of an employee claim. We also ensure that your company is following proper policies to remain in compliance with state and federal regulations.