Differnce Between Employee Handbank And HRD Manual

Dear All.
Can anyone suggest me what is the basic difference between Employee handbook and HR Manual. Can we circulate the copy of HR Manual to employees or it should be with HR only.May be both the document carry the same information. pls suggest.

Hello friend,
An "Employee Manual" or an "Employee Handbook" are same. This is a collection guidelines, expectations, policies and procedures relevant to its employees.
Employee handbook/Manual is given to employees on one of the first days of his/her job, in order to acquaint them with their new company and its policies.
HRD Manual however may contain many other processes - for example recruitment process, compensation design process, employee survey process etc. Such processes may not be very relevant to each emplyee and will not therefore be part of Employee Handbook or Employee Manual but will certainly be part of HRD Manual - In other words our ISO manual for HR can be termed as HRD Manual.
Hope this clarifies.
Regards
Nishikant