Previously on Innovate: Reevaluating Company Policies & Employee Manuals

Innovate is Sprout’s HR community meetup event series where HR practitioners and major stakeholders come together to connect, share ideas, and talk about innovative trends that shape the field of human resources in the Philippines.

We invited a handful of HR professionals all over the metro to join us in the latest edition of Innovate, themed Reevaluating Company Policies and Employee Manuals. This Innovate event zeroed in on how HR professionals in the country are using existing company policies to manage employees, and how these policies can be improved by looking at emerging trends and employee feedback.

Vanessa Joy Macatangay, CHRP®, known as Vane to her friends and colleagues, is Sprout’s Head of People Operations. She spearheaded this event by talking about how HR teams can take another look at implementing company policies and employee manuals.

 

“Change [an employee’s] mindset in such a way that they wouldn’t feel that they were penalized for something they did wrong.” – Vane Macatangay

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vane revisited how the basic pillars of employee management, namely employee manuals, code of ethics, and code of conduct, help define the way employees act and perform their work everyday. She also discussed the basic structure that makes up these governance pillars, leading to the different ways HR professionals can review, reorganize, and revamp these things that favor both the employer and the employee in the fairest way possible.

As everyone is joining the big shift towards full digitization, HR teams must stay relevant and updated with the latest trends in employer-employee relationships. Vane was able to touch this very important point in reevaluating company policies by highlighting the fact that the umbrella term “people operations” is becoming the new HR. She also pointed out that culture sits at the core of every HR thrust, as she believes that company policies must revolve around a holistic and proactive company culture.

After an engaging exchange of questions and answers, Vane left an empowering message that emphasizes on effective discipline strategy. “Change [an employee’s] mindset in such a way that they wouldn’t feel that they were penalized for something they did wrong”, Vane said.

We’d like to thank everyone who showed up despite the inclement weather and joined us on this edition of Innovate! We look forward to having you again on our future Innovate events! #InnovateCompanyPolicies

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