Who enforces the dress code?
All too often, dress codes are enforced inconsistently—or not at all! Whoever gives it, feedback is essential. Ideally, feedback is given by an employee’s immediate supervisor or manager with HR available for help. Providing training or coaching is one of the best forms of support HR can give managers and supervisors. Recommended reading for employees might include Springboard to Success: Strategies to Keep Business Casual from Making Business…Casual by April Callis. And, of course, a review of your dress code! Just look at the results of a study by California State U, Sacramento, Marketing professor Dennis Tootelian, who interviewed 500 American workers: • 62% said they had felt inappropriately dressed at a business or a social function • 68% are uncertain about the differences among business attire, business casual and casual “There is a lot of confusion over just what is appropriate,” said Tootelian. His study also found divisions along generational lines, with younger respondents h
