Lotus HR Top 10 List - Avoid being invited into the courtroom by your employee!1. Review ALL documents an employee is to sign! Be sure they are not biased or slanted. Have an employee that does not speak English and only Spanish? Make sure the documents are available in Spanish!
2. Make sure job application and any other document presented to a new hire (offer of employment) is signed by the candidate!
3. Turnover happens when hiring is done without strategy! Hiring an over-qualified candidate? Expect them to eventually get bored. Hiring a candidate who may not have the qualifications you are looking for? Don’t hire them unless you have a plan to train them.
4. New Hire orientation for EVERY new hire! Avoid the “I was never told” defense!
5. Every new hire must understand the “communication process” within your company! Who can they go to if they have an issue, complaint or question? Make it known.
6. Develop performance by instituting a formal review program. Commit to it and get it done!
7. Discipline or Termination? Review the employee file for all pertinent information that supports your case.
8. Laying off several employees? Make sure you consider age, sex, race – any detail that may result in an employee feeling they are being discriminated against. Have a plan. Consult an expert!
9. The employee you are terming has a life, family – treat them the way you would want to be treated.
10. If it isn’t in writing, it didn’t happen! Document everything – email, memo’s, warning, compliments and praises – they all go in the file and will help support your decisions.
Happy Holidays!
Team Lotus.
