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Developing Policies and Procedures Handbooks and Manuals

HR Policies & Procedures

Why policies are important

Policies serve several important functions:

Communicate values and expectations for how things are done at your organization
Keep the organization in compliance with legislation and provide protection against employment claims
Document and implement best practices appropriate to the organization
Support consistent treatment of staff, fairness and transparency
Help management to make decisions that are consistent, uniform and predictable
Protect individuals and the organization from the pressures of expediency

Steps in Policy Development
Your workplace is unique and therefore you may need to develop policies very specific to your organization and type of work, for which there are no templates or benchmarks. Typically, policy development will follow the following steps:

Step 1: Establish need for a policy
Step 2: Develop policy content
Step 3: Draft the policy
Step 4: Write the procedure
Step 5: Review of the policy by key parties
Step 6: Approve the policy
Step 7: Implement the policy
Step 8: Policy review and update
Step 9: Communication of changes to the policy

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