The HR Biz Quiz

Congratulations! You’ve taken the first step in protecting your business. We only work with small to mid-sized companies,and when we join them, a full 98% of them are doing something wrong with their HR programs - enough to get them sued, get a complaint filed against them, or risk heavy penalties from Federal and State Agencies. Completing this quiz (which we estimate will take you less than 20 minutes) will give People People the information we need to assess the current state of your HR practices and programs. From there, we’ll create your custom report card and call or visit to share the results. We want to make sure you know what you don't know!

Don’t overthink it! If you don’t have an answer it’s OK to say so! Remember, we’re trying to help, so we need to know what you know and what you don't! Be honest, there’s no judgment here. If at any time you need help during this brief quiz, don’t hesitate to call Belinda at 913.940.5391 to set a time to do it with you. We’re happy to walk you through it.

Please provide us with the following information:

1. So we can send your your Report Card, please list your contact name, phone number and email address: *This question is required.

2. Company Name: *This question is required.

3. Company Address: *This question is required.

4. Please provide the name and title of the person responsible for managing HR in your business: *This question is required.

5. States in which you're doing business: *This question is required.

6. Years in business: *This question is required.

7. Headcount/FTE's: *This question is required.

Tell Us About Your Company, Employee Handbook, and Employee Files

8. What are your core values? Do you have a vision and mission statement. If you do, please tell us what they are. *This question is required.

9. Do you currently operate with an Employee Handbook? *This question is required.

10. If you have an Employee Handbook, who wrote it? (Be honest, there's no judgment here...) *This question is required.

11. Do you have employees sign off on policies such as a handbook acknowledgement, anti-harassment policies, confidentiality policies, computer use policies and similar? *This question is required.

12. Do you have a published reporting procedure for harassment policies? *This question is required.

13. Give us an idea of what your average individual employee file contains: *This question is required.

14. Where do you keep your employee files? *This question is required.

Tell Us About Your Current People Management

15. Do you have written Job Descriptions? *This question is required.

16. How do you currently classify employees under FLSA (the Fair Labor Standards Act and DOL)? i.e. Exempt and Non-Exempt. Some companies refer to those classifications as salaried and hourly. *This question is required.

17. Do you have both full-time and part-time employees? *This question is required.

18. Do you hire Independent Contractors? *This question is required.

If you hire Independent Contractors, do you feel you understand all the regulations around them?

19. Do you have a formal employee appraisal or employee development process?

Are your appraisal and development forms aligned with your business goals and contain employee development goals? *This question is required.

20. How frequently do you conduct employee reviews? *This question is required.

Are employees given copies of their employee appraisals or employee development forms?

21. Do you feel you have a consistent discipline or progressive discipline process? *This question is required.

22. Right now, if you have a difficult employee issue, who do you call for help? *This question is required.

23. Do you have an organizational chart? *This question is required.

Tell Us About Your Onboarding Processes

24. How do you decide what you're going to pay a new hire? *This question is required.

25. Do you provide successful candidates with an offer letter confirming their terms of offered employment? *This question is required.

26. Do you utilize non-compete and non-disclosure agreements? *This question is required.

If you do utilize non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, are they provided ahead of their start date or along with an offer letter? *This question is required.

Do you ask successful candidates to sign their offer letter to confirm their acceptance? *This question is required.

27. Do you require background checks and/or drug tests prior to hire? *This question is required.

Do you have authorization and release forms for employees to consent to background checks and/or drug tests? *This question is required.

At what stage in the hiring process do you ask for authorization to run a background check and/or drug screen? *This question is required.

If a candidate fails their drug screen or background check, how do you handle it? *This question is required.

28. What HR forms do you have new hires complete on their first day? *This question is required.

29. Is your company subject to E-Verify participation? *This question is required.

30. Do you have an orientation process? *This question is required.

What About Your Pay Practices?

31. What is your pay frequency?

If Other, please explain.

32. What is your work week for overtime calculation purposes? *This question is required.

33. How many hours per week constitutes full-time at your company? *This question is required.

34. How do you track non-exempt employees' time? *This question is required.

35. How do you calculate non-exempt employees overtime? *This question is required.

36. Do you outsource payroll to a third-party payroll provider? *This question is required.

37. Who files your quarterly Federal and State tax returns, 941's? *This question is required.

38. Let's say you give your employees a gift card or cold hard cash - are they taxed on these funds? *This question is required.

39. Do you offer employees payroll advances? *This question is required.

If you issue a payroll advance to an employee, do you have them sign and IOU or note? *This question is required.

40. How do you benchmark compensation against the competition in your market and industry? *This question is required.

What Benefits do you Offer?

41. What insured benefits do you currently offer employees? *This question is required.

42. How many hours a week must employees work to be eligible for your insured benefits? *This question is required.

43. How much do you pay towards each of the insured benefits you provide employees? *This question is required.

44. If an employee leaves, who handles COBRA paperwork or state continuation? *This question is required.

45. What non-insured benefits do you provide employees? Things like vacation, sick leave, PTO, maternity, paternity, etc. *This question is required.

46. How many hours a week must employees regularly work to quality for your non-insured benefits? *This question is required.

47. Do you have a workers' compensation policy? *This question is required.

48. Do you have an injury reporting procedure? *This question is required.

49. Do you have a premium only plan for benefits? *This question is required.

50. Do you offer a retirement plan? *This question is required.

If you offer a retirement plan, are you fully up to speed about your responsibilities under the plan? *This question is required.

51. How do you reimburse business mileage? *This question is required.

52. Do you provide car allowances? *This question is required.

Are car allowances paid to employees taxable? *This question is required.

53. Do you provide cell phone allowances? *This question is required.

Are the cell phone allowances you pay to employees taxable? *This question is required.

54. Do you provide tuition reimbursement? *This question is required.

Do you have a written tuition reimbursement policy? *This question is required.

55. Do you provide employees with technology or equipment? *This question is required.

How do you track the technology and equipment you provide employees? *This question is required.

How Do You Recruit?

56. How do you usually recruit for new employees? *This question is required.

57. Do you offer an employee referral bonus? *This question is required.

58. Are you and your staff fully trained on what you can and can't ask a candidate in an interview? *This question is required.

59. How long should you keep the resumes you receive from unsuccessful candidates for an open position? *This question is required.

60. Anything to Add? We'd love to hear more about you, your challenges, your former problems, and how you're managing your people. Any insight you can give us here helps us create a more meaningful Report Card for you! *This question is required.

The HR Biz Quiz

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