Case Study 4: Developing and Implementing Workplace Policy

Tom, one of your employees, has worked in the office for ten years. He is well liked and knowledgeable about the history of the office and IT systems. There is no past history of performance issues that you can see from looking at past performance reviews. But your workplace does not have a performance policy as well. What you have observed is that Tom regularly shows up late, (office opens at 8:30am, Tom usually comes by 9/9:15 am), takes longer than an hour for lunch, and often is heading out the door by 4:30pm (office closes at 5pm). You notice that this type of behaviour seems to happen once in a while for other employees in the office, but seems like a daily practice for Tom. He never records any of this time on his time card as official time off. Since your organisation does not have a strict written policy in regards to performance, attendance and behaviour, you are now in the process to prepar a policy/rule for everyone to follow.

Question: Make small policy for this workplace in regards to performance, attendance and other expected behaviour.