That Employee Handbook Won’t Write Itself

One of the foundations of effective management is clarity in communication — and that includes clarity in explaining the expectations you’ve set for your team members. Employees need to know what kinds of behaviors you wish for them to exhibit, and which to avoid — and penalizing them for misunderstanding your expectations is unfair unless you’ve translated those expectations into official policies.That’s really reason enough to consider putting together an employee handbook — a set of codified guidelines that your employees can refer back to when they need to understand the company’s stance on a given issue.There is another, perhaps