Directions To Complete The Assignment
Electrical Contractor Employee Handbook steps to completion:
Please follow these steps. You may want to print this page and set it as a
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as you progress through the assignment. Complete each step before going on to
the next one.
1. Read through sample handbooks produced by others to get ideas of what yours
should look like. Click HERE to go to these
informative employee handbooks. Use your back button to return.
2. Ask around to see employee handbooks produced by your friends who are in
the business. Dig out the employee handbook your company uses. Go through
as many employee handbooks as you can find to see what you like and what you
would change. Pay particular attention to employee safety. Click HERE
to find helpful details about employee safety for electrical workers which might
be great for your employee handbook.
3. Investigate employment law so you will be sure to know how to complete
that section of the employee handbook. Click HERE to go to
these useful links.
4. Look over information about how to use a template to construct an
employee handbook. Click HERE to be directed to this
information. You do not need a template to complete this assignment. But you may
use one if you choose.
5. Evaluate your current mission statement with help from the details
provided at several current web sites. Click HERE to
be connected. This is a great activity. You'll probably want to or need to spend hours on
this.
6. Select and modify job descriptions for all the levels of electrical
workers you have in your employ. These will be a part of the employee handbook
when it is complete. Click HERE to see
representative samples of rough drafts of job descriptions.
7. Print a copy of the rough draft of a generic electrical contractor employee
handbook. Click HERE to print it. It will be about ten pages. Look it over as it prints.
8. Copy and paste this generic electrical contractor employee handbook outline into a file on your computer where you can make changes. This could be notepad, word, works, or even outlook express drafts. You get the idea. By
doing this, you will be able to have a starting point. If you choose to do all
the data entry yourself, that's OK too.
9. Write a welcome page to your new employees.
10. Personalize the employee
receipt page with your company data.
11. Gather names, telephone numbers for the contact
page.
12. Go on to each of the sections of the rough draft
outline from A to R. Add,
subtract, modify, correct as needed by hand on this copy so it is representative
of your company. Include details about what you feel is appropriate for each
topic. When completed with this task, set the handbook aside for several days.
Then return to it with the thought of making additional corrections as needed.
13. After a rough draft read, making corrections as needed, have all the data entered into your computer.
You may use the format provided as a part of this course, or you may select
your own. Then print this improved, typed, rough draft copy. Be sure to pass it around to anyone in your company who may be able to offer
suggestions for improvement. Let others help you.
14. Evaluate the suggestions and make changes as appropriate. Retype the document.
Reprint the document.
15. Again, let the employee handbook sit on a shelf for a week or more.
Then return to it. Read it from the perspective of an employee. Would you like
to be an employee at this company as presented in this employee handbook if you were to hire into this company? Then make changes again
as needed. Retype. Print.
16. When you like your result, make copies for all employees. Distribute them.
17. Listen to remarks made by employees. Keep a corrections copy to include
appropriate suggestions for the next reprint in, say, six months.
18. Submit the employee handbook for ECLB Credit if you choose.
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