Product Description: Conducting performance appraisals can be a daunting prospect, especially for new managers. With the same brand of accessible and sage advice readers have come to rely on from "The First-Time Manager", this helpful guide provides straightforward, useful information that will enable anyone to take on this important task with confidence and skill...read more

Product Description: "Competition for skilled employees is fierce! This book provides comprehensive, practical advice to employers to get and keep the people they need. It covers such vital topics as what workers want - including a sense of making a real impact in their jobs and getting learning opportunities; why workers leave - sometimes just because they can (it's so easy to find a new job), often because they feel undervalued or bored where they are; and what best-practice companies are doing to attract and retain the talent necessary to remain competitive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The author, an HR specialist herself, has created the first and only "course" in writing tailored to the special needs of HR professionals. Section One helps the reader build a foundation of general skills. Section Two invites the reader to examine more than 100 samples of specific HR documents...read more

There is a glut of human resources books aimed at large companies. But "Managing Human Resources in Small and Mid-Sized Companies" remains the only book to address the unique challenges confronting organizations in the 100 to 1,500 employee range. And it is now completely updated to reflect current legal requirements, compensation trends, advances in information management, and much more. This comprehensive, clearly written guide shows readers how to: * set up or expand a human resources department * recruit, interview, select, and orient new employees * establish compensation, benefits, and performance appraisal programs

Product Description: Workplace testing is fraught with complexities and controversy. but intelligently administered testing can greatly increase a company's productivity and profitability. This guide gives details on using all the major types of tests: drug and alcohol, psychological, personality, integrity and physical...read more