Do you need to produce a Staff Handbook for your organisation?

Staff Handbook Template If so the resources available on this page should help you to produce an effective employee handbook quickly and efficiently for free!

We have produced a free 40 page professionally written and designed Staff Handbook template which you can adapt to your own organisation. This is based on models of good practice and should meet the requirements of UK law ; it should therefore also be fit for purpose within European Community countries. Indeed the basis of the Handbook could be applied to any organisation with a bit of adapting.

We have tested the template in several small and medium sized organisations, and the typical basic setup time is under 2 hours

Staff Handbook Template - for free download

This is the Staff Handbook Template - recently updated to take account of all current legislation

Brief guidance note to help with the production of the Staff Handbook.

Useful Links

Handbook and Policy Manual Samples and Information
Useful information from Humanresources.about.com

Model Handbook from ACAS
Example of an employee handbook for a small or medium sized company

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Staff Handbook - Related Documents

Staff Handbook - Recommended Book:

"Writing a Human Resources Manual: A Step-by-Step Plan for Developing an Employee Handbook" by Susan L Brock

Book designed to help you learn step-by-step to write an effective staff handbook, to determine which policies, practices and procedures to include, and how to test and verify what has been written with employees.

The book is available new on Amazon through the link on the book cover above for £11.99, but there are a number of second hand versions available.

Human Resource Solutions offer these documents to UK organisations only as a service, but cannot be responsible or liable to any person or entity in respect of any cost, loss or damage caused, consequential or otherwise, directly or indirectly by the information contained in the policies and procedures or their component parts, to include any mistakes therein.