Small Business: safety - How To Catch A Cheating employee

In a new ad campaign for "Small company Saturday" it was claimed small company is responsible for creating the vast majority of new jobs in the country. The small company society is vital to driving the economic motor that is the Us economy.

With the economic conditions the way they are in the United States, more people are beginning their own small business. They are beyond doubt the backbone of the economy. It takes many things to start a small company along with courage, money, good company sense and a definite number of good luck. It takes more than that to keep a small company going and make it profitable. company owners need to be mindful of security.

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Depending on where you live, as many as two out of three small businesses fail in their first year. Economic conditions have a lot to do with success rates and, as you know, the economy is not good. Small company owners have a lot of things to overcome to make their company a success. Many people feel the federal government is the biggest obstacle with all the regulations and inordinate taxation but that's a argument for an additional one time.

It is a well-established fact that 70% of all company losses are due to shoplifting by customers and cheating and stealing by employees. Employee theft is one of those things that company owners just tear their hair out over. A conscientious owner is implicated about his employees and can only hope that his employees reciprocate by being honest in dealing with customers and with cash and list of the company owner. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Security is not always up to the task.

The best way to catch a cheating Employee stealing from a small company is with a spy camera. A spy camera is simply a board camera that's placed inside an object that people are used to looking and don't think twice about seeing. Many new spy cameras have a Dvr inside them which makes recording even easier.

Many spy cameras cannot be used in a company setting because they look out-of-place. You want something that will fit in naturally. One of the best and most sufficient spy cameras to catch a cheating Employee in a small company is the smoke detector Overhead Spy Camera.

This sufficient spy camera is not a functioning smoke detector but sounds and looks like one. Inside is a 1/3 inch Sony Ccd camera Dvr with appeal activation and remote control. It has an override highlight for unassisted continuous recording. The spy camera can withhold up to a 32 Gb Sd card which could be days of recording. The appeal activation highlight allows for only recording when there is action eliminating the need to sit through hours of blank video. It has a 12 V power provide cord.

When you have a cheating Employee who is committing Employee theft in your small business, the best way to catch him is with a spy camera.

Small Business: safety - How To Catch A Cheating employee

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An Employee Handbook Template For Smaller Businesses

Why do you need such a template?

In 2008, there were 151,000 claims by employees against their employers that were submitted to Employment Tribunals and UK employers paid in excess of £26.4 million in compensation to employees through Employment Tribunals. Many of the claims submitted related to discrimination based upon race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation and age in addition to claims from unfair dismissals. By far the most claims related to Unfair Dismissal

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Why does this happen?

Too often, employers do not have appropriate working practices and processes that have been carefully prepared and presented to their employees. Such a situation leads to inevitable problems. So if it all seems so obvious, why don't smaller businesses adopt an appropriate employee handbook template covering all the necessary areas? There are many reasons, specifically:

The employer doesn't know the law The employer hasn't got time to prepare such a template and, as importantly, keep it up to date with changes to legislation and regulation If the employer had time to prepare an employee handbook, how would the employer ensure that it addressed all the relevant areas including:
- Employee induction
- Probationary periods
- Employee training
- Lateness
- Holidays
- Compassionate leave
- Appearance and Dress code
- Personal hygiene
- Expenses
- Right to search
- Grievance Procedures
- Disciplinary matters
- Dismissal
- Paternity leave
- Maternity leave
- Parental leave
- Equal opportunities
- Avoid of harassment and bullying
- Acceptable computer use

What a daunting list; and that is only a sample of the areas to be covered. Clearly, dependent upon the nature of the business of the employer, a different version of the handbook is required. So it appears that the only sensible solution is to have an employee handbook template that can be customised to meet the specific needs of the employer.

But that is only the beginning, once the employee handbook has been prepared, it is essential to establish that all employees have read it, understood it and registered their acceptance. Clearly, if the employer seeks to undertake these tasks manually, it could represent a major distraction from the main priority of running the business; which, after all was the main reason for starting up in the first place.

What are the solutions?

To determine appropriate solutions, it is necessary to summarise the situation and the potential problems arising. So what are the problems?:

I don't know the law affecting all of my employees and every part of my business Even if I knew the law, how would I find time to create the employee handbook and keep it up to date? How do I ensure that all my employees have read the handbook, understood it and registered their acceptance? How do I ensure that I refresh the memories of my employees at an appropriate frequency? How do I ensure that an employee is referring to the latest version of a specific policy or process?

These are the main issues and the option of using a Law Firm to draft a handbook specifically for your business can be costly. Additionally, it doesn't address the issue of how you confirm receipt, understanding and acceptance by your employees of the handbook.

From the above it is relatively easy to arrive at the only truly cost effective and efficient solution; adopt appropriate technology to customise a generic employee handbook template and then ensure that it is deployed to all your employees and that they register their acceptance without you having to create a 'paper chase'.

Just one last word of warning; don't fall into the trap of just publishing your policies and processes through putting your employee handbook on an internal website (an Intranet) as if you do, you can't tell who has read them and whether or not they have understood them.

An Employee Handbook Template For Smaller Businesses

Adrian Woodcock
Director - RSM Tenon Business Solutions

RSM Tenon Business Solutions have developed staff handbook software called 4staffhandbooks which ensures that company policies, procedures and statutory regulation are understood and accepted by your employees.

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Employers Assume Too Much About Employee Skills With Microsoft Tools

For business owners whose employees must use the computer at work, there is a good chance that they use Microsoft Word and Excel at a minimum. It is important for business owners to understand that not all employees are using those tools with the optimum skills that they could be. Hint to business owners: it may be worth it for you to pay to have you employees take some Microsoft online training courses.

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Because these tools are so common, many people have a tendency to assume that people know all that they do about how to use them. In fact, most people are self taught on how to use the tools. They figure out how to accomplish the things that they use the tools for and they stick with it. The problem is they may not have found the most efficient way to use the tool. If they are using a method to accomplish a task that takes twice as long as someone who has been trained on the most efficient use of the tool, then they are costing their employers needless money.

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There are plenty of resources to receive online training for Microsoft products. The small investment into the cost of the training and the time that it would take employees to go through the course on company time could well be made up and then some in the cost savings you will gain when your employees are able to accomplish tasks much quicker because they are properly trained and know the most efficient ways to get things done using the Microsoft tools.

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BrainStorm (http://www.brainstorminc.com/) is your Microsoft Online Training source leading industry provider of online and onsite software training. Also provides software quick reference cards and other software training materials for virtually any application that hits the desktop. Billings Farnsworth is a freelance writer.

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