Healthy HR management

Welcome to my blog. My mission is simple. My objective is clear. I am on a mission to make small to medium sized businesses aware of the necessity of having sound HR policies and practices in place. It is not difficult and the best way to do it if you have less than 100 employees is NOT to hire a full time human resource manager, but to outsource the HR responsibility to an expert provider of that service.

All too often I have to deal with a situation where I am actually digging the employer client out of a problem that would never have occurred if they had operated good policies, practices and procedures.  But then, isn't hindsight a wonderful thing?

It is never to late to start to apply good practice and to get the foundations of good employment law & HR infrastructure in place, whether you are a small start up company or a business that has been trading for over 20 years and managed to date without issuing your employees with so much as an employment contract. Now is the time to professionalise your operation and take the headache of HR away.

We all remember the addage that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". Think of good HR management as the apple that ensures that you keep, not the doctor, but the lawyers (and hefty legal fees) away from your business!

Some top tips to consider when looking at the HR aspects of your business:

1. make sure your employees have employment contracts (or at least a written statements of terms)
2. make sure you have a relevant and compliant staff handbook
3. try to keep up to date with relevant changes (don't miss our next blog on significant changes in employment law from 6 April 2011)  
4. be in charge of your business by knowing the boundaries of what you can and cannot do as an employer
5. consider outsourcing the HR function to an expert, thus freeing up the office manager, the financial director or the owner manager to do the job that they are best qualified to undertake. You will be surprised at how cost effective outsourcing can be!

Effective HRM offer a free health check. We will give your business documents a once over for free and give you our expert prognosis on what you need to do to improve your health!  http://www.effective-hrm.co.uk/

Our monthly retainer packages start from as little as £50 per month.

e-mail me today on emma@effective-hrm.co.uk