The Manager's Guide to HR: Hiring, Firing, Performance Evaluations, Documentation, Benefits, and Everything Else You Need to Know

By Max Muller

Book Overview

Managing people is a tricky business--and managers and small business owners need a clear understanding of the essentials of human resources to survive.

The original edition of The Manager's Guide to HR gives you an introduction to the regulations, rights, and responsibilities related to hiring and firing, benefits, compensation, documentation, performance evaluations, training, and more. However, much has changed since then.

Extensively revised, this second edition covers all the key areas of the original edition and brings you up to speed on current developments in employment law, including:

How social media is changing the recruitment landscapeShifting labor standards regarding compensation and benefitsThe National Labor Relations Board's stance on work-related employee speech on social mediaThe Employee Retirement Income Security ActNew record-keeping requirementsAmendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Featuring step-by-step guidance on everything from COBRA compliance to privacy issues, The Manager's Guide to HR is now once again the most up-to-date, invaluable resource any manager of personnel could have.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814433022
• ISBN13: 9780814433027
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

One chapter alone worth the price of the book

Ben Franklin claims an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I am an employment law attorney. I represent plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases only. I bought this book because the chapter on sexual harassment alone is excellent. Why did I buy it? Because it lists all the steps to follow to prevent harassment from occurring, and the steps to follow if harassment occurs and needs to be investigated. I use books like this as depo guidelines. If an employer doesn't follow steps like those outlined in this book, I will win the lawsuit. If the employer does follow the steps, then I can only win if the harassment was perpetrated by a supervisory-level employee (employer is strictly liable in California in that case). If you are an HR professional in California and follow this man's steps to prevent and investigate sexual harassment complaints, my caseload will diminish. Isn't that alone worth the price of this book if you are a California employer?

Great Resource

This is a comprehensive yet consolidated overview to refresh the myriad of HR responsibilities and laws. Every HR person should have this book in their reference library!