Understanding Company Dress Code

Understanding the Company Dress Code
NY Boutique is a company that takes pride in its employees and customers. We are a well sort after brand in the fashion vastly moving forward with the latest trends from the fashion industry and our competitor 's. Our main goal is to provide excellent customer services with our award winning customers services representative team by given them the tools and the product know how to services our customers. The CEO and CFO along with the store manager’s design a "Dress for Success Training" geared towards the ongoing dress code issues the company is facing. Today the leadership department will be trained on the importance of dress code in the workplace. The training department will create scenarios for the class demonstrating if an individual is dressed a certain way what type of attention it might draw. There will also be a Do’s and Don’ts list created by the class titled "If you have to second guess don 't wear" this list provide what is acceptable and what is not before information is distribute throughout the call center. Next tips will be provided on how to relay information back to their individual teams and action items that would need to be addressed and taken back to HR for review for e.g. (Wearing items for religious reasons). In addition to creating ways handle dress code violation and rewards such as contest for the best dress team. Lastly an assessment to determine if the training was a success and will the employees benefit from it. There is an article from About.com stating HR perspectives on how companies should address Dress Code issues "Your Company 's objective in establishing a business casual dress code, is to allow our employees to work comfortably in the workplace. Yet, we still need our employees to project a professional image for our customers, potential employees, and community visitors. Business casual dress is the standard for this dress code" (Heathfield, 2006). The purpose of this training for each

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