From Hiring To Firing A No Nonsense Guide To Managing Employee Performance

Managing people is a tricky business and managers and small business owners can no longer get by without understanding the essentials of human resources. New questions abound. In our increasingly legal-minded age, how much documentation do we need to keep on each employee? What’s the best way to confront complicated personnel issues, and even workplace violence?The Manager’s Guide to HRprovides readers with a straightforward, step-by-step guide to human resources topics. The book clarifies hot-button issues such as dealing with conflict, privacy issues, COBRA compliance, disabilities, sexual harassment, and more.The Manager’s Guide to HRis a quick and ready reference for every leader.

From Hiring to Firing presents useful tips, advice, and information for new or experienced managers in search of an easy reference source for dealing with day-to-day management challenges. The focus of this work is the practical application of basic management theories. From Hiring to Firing walks the reader through the process of recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and orienting new employees. That is followed by ways to improve your ability to communicate effectively with those employees, motivate them, and monitor their performance. There are additional sections on giving employees feedback, reinforcing behavior, and carrying out performance reviews. This work concludes with suggestions and guidance for handling the difficult situation of poor and unacceptable performance levels that may result in termination. Each chapter includes a list of specific actions for the reader to complete in order to develop the skills discussed in the book. These 'To Do Lists' relate directly to the material in the corresponding chapter and focus on applying the concepts by performing tasks to season and develop the reader's skills.

Employing humans can be a real mine field for business owners, especially those with little to no management experience. This book is aimed at business owners who are either getting ready for their first hire or have some staff already and could do with some guidance on how to manage them. It covers all of the essentials on employing staff in easy to follow chapters and can be read from cover to cover (aside from the appendices) or used to refer to a particular topic when needed. An added bonus is the addition of a wide range of template letters which can be used to navigate through a variety of employee relations issues. An essential Human Resources manual for those without a Human Resources department. Navigate Employment Law with practical tips to be Awesome, or at least scrape by (hopefully) without issue. Sandra Cheeseman is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, with over 20 years experience of advising and guiding Managers and Directors on their staffing issues.

In "Punk Rock People Management" I have stripped down HR to the bare essentials for busy people and those who are sick of HR jargon getting in the way of running a business.In the spirit of punk, each 'chapter' is just one page long, which means that you can read a chapter in less time than it takes to pogo to a Sex Pistols or Linkin Park song! On hearing of the concept, Tom Peters, the world's greatest business thinker, author and speaker sent me a mail with just two words in it: "Do it!" - Now that's what I call a Punk Rock Business Guru !"Punk Rock PM" is organised using the classic 'Life, Sex and Death HR cycle', in other words Hiring, Inspiring and Firing.If you have to get things done with people and can't get no satisfaction from an HR textbook, try "Punk Rock PM" for a refreshing difference.Peter Cook - Author: "Best Practice Creativity", "Sex, Leadership and Rock'n'Roll"