If your workplace has an employee manual, check to see what it says about ethical behavior in the workplace.

Today, agreements to arbitrate disputes turn up repeatedly in job applications and employee manuals.

"It is a spirit that must spring from the individual, not the employee manual," he said.

An employee handbook, sometimes also known as an employee manual or staff handbook, is a book given to employees by an employer.

His employer made no promises about job security and Mr. Darcy remembers one salient phrase from his employee manual.

"Unwritten codes, directives in employee manuals, role models, and sharp hints are used by almost all large companies."

"We do refer to dress in our employee manual," Ms. Rogers pointed out.

Training workshops are used, as well as overseeing of the lan-guage used in employee manuals.

The book ends with twenty pages of cartoons that constitute Semco's only employee manual.

"In the last year we have thown away half of our employee manual," he said.