The process for developing your company's Employee Handbook is straight-forward and in most cases can be completed in only a few weeks. The steps are as follows:
Conduct an interview with you and (if appropriate) your management team to gather company-specific information relevant to each section of the Handbook, and to learn about any ideas, preferences, or suggestions you might have for each section.
Review any exisiting Handbook used by the company.
Develop a first draft of Handbook. This draft will include all "boilerplate" text and in each section, as appropriate, will present key policy alternatives. Typically approximately half the sections in the first draft will be in near-final form, and half will require management input. The first draft is delivered for your review.
Meet with you to review policy alternatives and discuss recommendations.
Based on input from review of the first draft, develop a second draft of Handbook. This draft is expected to be nearly complete, with most sections in final form and only a small number of issues to be resolved. Policy alternatives will be provided for any remaining open issues.
Meet with you to resolve open issues.
Develop third draft of Handbook and provide to you to review. This draft will be essentially complete, needing only a final review or approval.
If necessary, meet with you to resolve remaining issues and collect any edits.
Develop the final version of the Employee Handbook and deliver to you. Included with the final version will be recommendations on a process to introduce the Handbook to your staff.
