Valuing Employee Manuals

In terms of excitement, the employee manual ranks right up there with ordering toner cartridges for your copy machine. Most entrepreneurs don’t rank it in the top ten list of Things We Can Hardly Wait to Do.

However, as soon as employees are on your payroll, you need to add employee manuals to your business’s preventive medicine kit. A well-prepared manual can save its user pain later. The employee manual is important because of the varied and important functions it fulfills. Behold what a well-prepared employee manual can do for you:

The employee manual provides the first opportunity to define your corporate missions and goals to your new employees and sets the tone for what’s to come. Imagine the message that a well-prepared employee manual sends to the recently hired employee when her questions are succinctly answered in an organized and thorough manner. (Imagine the message you send when those questions