Employee Handbook and Policy Templates

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Step 1: Habits of Executives

Step 2: Strategic Planning

Step 3: Corporate Governance

Step 4: Execution and Management

Step 5: Executive Reporting

Step 6: Accounting and Financing

Step 7: Marketing and Sales

Step 8: Corporate Stewardship

Step 9: How to be a CEO

Employee Handbook and Policy Templates

Here, we aim to guide SME owners through a process that helps them make the right, strategic choices that will help their company grow. This begins with strong HR policies that entrepreneurs and executives tailor to their company’s specific needs and then actually use to create a high-performing culture and workforce. By adopting and implementing the Employee Handbook and accompanying policies, entrepreneurs and executives can take a significant step away from being an SME and towards becoming a world-class, gender-smart company.

As each fund and portfolio company are unique, these templates are meant to be adapted and fitted to individual needs of a fund manager’s SME portfolio. 

We recommend that entrepreneurs watch the Gender-Smart Exec’s Program training modules 5 and 6 (Execution and Management Teams), 7 (Running Effective Meetings) and 15 (Corporate Stewardship) for more information on the importance of implementing gender-smart policies and practices. These training modules can be found under the Entrepreneur’s Portal.

RESOURCES

• Employee Handbook

• Introduction and how to use the Employee Handbook

• Implementing the Employee Handbook

• Policies

  • Section 1

    • Company Code of Ethics

    • Harassment Policy

    • Diversity and Inclusion Policy

    • Gender Equality Policy

    • Human Rights Policy

    • Anti-human Trafficking Policy

    • Anti-Corruption Policy

    • Sourcing Procedure

    • Environmental Sustainability Policy

  • Section 2

    • Hiring, Recruitment and Renumeration Policy

    • Leave and Burden of Care Policy

    • Grievances Procedures

    • Flexible Work Hours Policy

    • Employee Termination Policy

    • Performance Review Policy

    • Employee Professional Development Policy

    • Procurement Procedure

    • Risk Management Procedure

    • Community Service Overview

    • Employee Commitment and Acknowledgment Statement

    • Third Party HR Policy Templates