Top 5 HR Forms You Need To Manage Staff in Your Startup
At some point during your start-up journey you’ll need to be involved in more formal HR practices in order to meet your legal obligations and in order to get the maximum effort and right focus from your staff. Here are some of the essential forms you’ll need below.
These are professional, ready-to-go forms that can be used by an entrepreneur on their own or with the support of a HR professional like myself.
If you’d like any additional support implementing these forms, please book a HR consultation with me here.
5 Human Resources Forms You Need To Manage Staff in Your Startup
1.Employment Contract (Word Format)
You are required to provide all employees with a written contract within 2 months of joining in the UK. Typicaly, you’d offer either a casual contract or zero hours if work is unpredictable but if you can guarantee regular hours, you should try are part-time or fulltime contract. I’d recommend these employment contracts to you provided by Netlawman as they are written in simple English, making them easy to use.
2.Employee Handbook (Word Format)
As soon as you hire your first employee, I’d strongly recommend an Employee Handbook, containing the legally required policies of Grievance and Disciplinary policy and all the other policies such as holidays and sickness which set all key entitlements. It basically
3. Probationary Period Form (Word Format).
Research shows that new hires have about a 70% chance of success. They are not the finished product. That’s why I recommend new hires join on a 3 month probationary period. This form enables you implement a trial period for a new hire . It is a 3 page word document of 566 words in length, and guides you through an:
1.Initial Review Meeting
2.Interim Probationary Review Meeting
3.Final Review Meeting
Probationary Period Form (Word Format)
4.Employee Bonus Plan (Word Format)
Research shows that the carrot works better than the stick when trying to motivate staff. This is why I recommend that you use a bonus scheme to incentivize your staff.
This small business bonus scheme is a 5 page word document of 1505 words in length that you can use to implement a bonus scheme in your business. The bonus takes into account individual performance, team performance and overall company performance when deciding each person’s individual payout, according to this formula: Base Salary X Bonus Target X CPF X IPF X TPF = Bonus
Employee Bonus Plan (Word Format)
5. The One Page Appraisal Form. (Excel Format)
The system contains: 1.) Notes for use, 2.) Appraisal Form, 3.) Appraisal Tracking system.
There are 4 parts to the appraisal form: 1.) Employee Self Appraisal, 2.) Manager Appraisal, 3.) Performance Objectives, 4.) Learning Objectives
The Rating System goes from 4 down to 1 as follows: 4: Exceeding expectations, 3: Meeting expectations, 2: Acceptable with specific improvements, 1. Not acceptable.
One Page Appraisal Form
