list 9 best ways to reach and maintain employee appearance standards?

Answer 1

1: Hire only people who already look presentable.
2:Maintain good company morale by taking care of your employees.
3:let them know when you expect the job to include a lot of crappy work, or give them lockers and a change room.
4: have a dress code and grooming standards with minimum requirements. Refer to it frequently.
5: Give documented counselling to those who violate the minimum requirements, then make them clock out, go home, and change, or clean themselves. Remind them how much you value appearances, and use quarterly evaluation forms that include boxes for appearances. This should be considered when determining raises and advancement.
6: Fire people who repeatedly need to be counseled on their clothing, since you have documented the problem, and perform step one when hiring.
7: Have a best dressed contest with a cash prize, or other attractive benefit.
8: Make sure all employees know about clothing-damaging hazards in your workspace, such as sharp corners, and caustic chemicals.
9: Set an example yourself by constantly dressing above the minimum, and compliment others on their good outfits.

I suspect that if you actually need all nine tips, either you are obsessed with appearances to a degree where other factors hamper productivity without drawing your attention, or you are actually not enforcing your existing methods for reaching, and maintaining employee appearance standards.

Answer 2

1 - Clearly explain what the standards are - IN WRITING.
2 - Enforce the standards - send an employee home if they don't meet standards the first time, and take disciplinary action for repeated failures.
3 - Compliment employees who meet the required standards; particularly those that have had problems in the past.
4 - Follow the standards yourself.
5 - Don't expect too much change at one time - if you see an employee making improvement, recognize it and encourage continued improvement (especially if the issue is a minor one.)
6 - Reward consistency - for example, maybe offer a small bonus or a day off to the employee who meets all the standards every day for x amount of time.
7 - Check on appearance of employees when you wouldn't otherwise be there (assuming you/re not there all the time the store/office is open).
8 - Don't ignore failures.
9 - Repeat again - you have to do this EVERY DAY.

Answer 3

1. Hire only people who are neat and clean in appearance.
2. Include dress code in the employee policy manual that they
receive at the start of their job, and have them sign.
3. If other employees are dressed in a neat way, most new
employees will conform.
4. Have a 'dress down Friday" for those who give to charity or
participate in some type of campaign.
5. Maintain employee morale in the workplace.

Answer 4

1. Lead by example
2. Have an employee manual. Having an employee handbook eliminates a lot of problems. If you have trouble enforcing issues the employee handbook can be your "boss". (spell out the dress code and enforce it with all employees)
3. Private conversation with the offending employee
4,5,6,7,8,& 9 are covered above

Answer 5

I don't have nine ways, but I can tell you what should be number 1 & 2:

1. Consistency in enforcement.
2. Apply equally to ALL employees, regardless of department or position.

IE, if you have a rule that says guys should be clean shaven, then you enforce equally, for all employees, regardless of whether or not they deal with customers at the register, or are the gardener on the grounds.

A good set of standards to use as a baseline are the military standards, as they actually give measurable standards. You don't have to be as strict as them, but your standards should be measurable, as theirs are.

Answer 6

1 through 9: fire them if they don't maintain appearance standards.

Answer 7

Require certain standards and make it known that noncompliance (on the first offense) is punishable by termination. Enforcement must be consistent.

Answer 8

Offer incentives....

Make it a RULE....

Have contests on the BEST DRESSED...