HR policies MICROSOFT

HUMAN RESOURCE POLICIES Name: Grade Course: Tutor’s Name: (15, October, 2010) Human Resource Policies Policy is a set of rules that are used to guide an institution or country in attaining recommended visionary activities. They identify the weak loop holes and activities and come up with ways of solving the problems identified. The policies are made to avoid recurrence of a fault or a potential of wrong in a working environment. Human resource policies are important aspects of any company as it affects how the employees relate with the company and their level of output, organizations expectations and standards (Houseman, 2001). Every company needs HR written down policies mainly to allow them to comprehend their duties and roles with reasonable limits and allow continuous operations without managerial supervision. They are seen to be links between the operations, future and operations of the companies. Policies are general in the sense that they are applicable to all employees in a company. The policies identify certain aspects held dear to the company in the form of rules and regulations and the consequence of their breaking. Reasons for the rules are given in case one breaks them and questions on the rule broken it is written in a format is easy to understand for reference (Fisher & Nobile, 2010).  Policies are important in areas like health, legal liabilities and matter of serious aftermath. According to Schippmann Et al. (2003) Poor HR policies can bring a company law suits and bad publicity for the company. examples of this policies are in terms of; attendance, vacations, drugs, attendance, sexual harassment, jury duty, conflict of interests, employment, discipline resolution, discipline, working conditions and hours discrimination, compensation and nepotism just to name but a few. All this policies are meant to manage risk and maintain high standard of well qualified employees and keep the company in a proper standard. Microsoft has been rated 49 of 500 on the fortune list which involves the most suc...