| | |  | Career Planning Books | Home » » The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional | | | | | | | Description: | | Whether you are a newly promoted manager, a seasoned business owner, or a human resources professional, knowing the ins and outs of dealing with HR issues is critical to your success. The Essential HR Handbook is a quick-reference guide that sheds light on the issues that keep managers up at night. It is filled with information, tools, tips, checklists, and road maps to guide managers and HR professionals through the maze of people and legal issues, from recruiting and retaining the best employees to terminating poor performers.
With this book, you'll learn how to effectively and efficiently:
* Individually manage each employee, starting on his or her first day.
* Manage a multi-generational workforce.
* Appraise job performance.
* Coach and counsel.
* Provide equitable pay, benefits, and total rewards strategies.
* Identify legal pitfalls and stay out of court.
The Essential HR Handbook is the one HR guide every manager needs on his or her desk! | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Sharon Armstrong | | Paperback:
| 224 pages | | Publisher:
| Career Press | | Publication Date:
| August 01, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1564149900 | | Product Length:
| 8.18 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.3 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.56 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.63 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 33 reviews |
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16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 excellent resourceAug 24, 2008
By Gail Finger
I found this book to be a wonderful quick reference. I would recommend it - not only for HR professionals - but for managers and supervisors as well. It will help managers to start off on the right foot with new hires, prevent potentially sticky situations, and is a great resource for issues that might arise. The case examples are great. It's concise and to the point. I found the section on performance evaluations particularly helpful.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
This book answers all your HR questionsAug 05, 2008
By J. Brookstein
Need a list of questions for interviewing job applicants? Need guidelines on how to coach an employee in meeting performance goals? Need answers to all those pesky HR issues and problems you encounter every day? Then buy this book and you'll be set! The handy index makes it easy to find information on any HR issue you face. Every manager, business owner, and HR professional will want to have this book in their office as a reference.
Membership director for various associations, 20+ years experience
Washington, DC
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
A Real Gem!Sep 09, 2008
By Paul R. Shibelski
I heard about this nifty little book from a friend and, although I've been in HR for nearly 30 years and read too many texts and popular "how-to" books on the subject, decided to give it a read.
Well, even for an old hand like myself, I was impressed. The authors have made this a concise, readable book - truly a Handbook. It covers all the essential topics in an organized fashion that makes it easy on the reader to find the answers quickly without a lot of legalese to get in the way. I really like the sample documents they've included. The new manager or seasoned HR professional will appreciate having these examples to adapt and use.
I highly recommend it to anyone in the field or who has the responsibility of managing others in the workplace. Bravo!
Paul Shibelski, SPHR, GPHR
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Wanting More from this book. . .Feb 03, 2011
By Jessica Miller-Merrell
"Jessica Miller-Merrell"
I received this book from the publisher at request to review the book. As an HR professional with more than 10 years of experience in the industry I was looking forward to reading it. I was left a little disappointed. I think on the surface this a good book with some good resources for the entry level HR professional and manager who is really looking to learn about how to write a proper performance review. Most (managers) aren't willing to give the time which is very sad because the review process is a great way to build on communication and provide your employees with clear directives and understanding about what really is expected.
I felt like some of the suggested dialogue wasn't as realistic as it could have been. This is one place where I think the book could have took this a little further offering a CD or online resources like podcasts that provide the managers with some role playing scenarios where they could hear the proper way to talk to their team before, during, and after a performance evaluation. This makes the discussion more realistic and offers a way to practice before the performance review through hearing and not just seeing.
This book has 69 pages of forms which seems to be a large percentage of the book. I thought that it was a good resource but would have liked to see the book to provide in the CD or on the website a place to download the templates either for free or for further purchase. Websites like SHRM offer free toolkits and it would be nice for a book like this if some of these forms were included so the human resource managers don't have to recreate the wheel every time. I say this because I have held a number of HR training sessions and employee training program seminars with managers and HR professionals, having forms and access to information in different mediums is so important in learning especially for those eager managers who really want to do better at communicating with their employees.
Jessica Miller-Merrell
CEO of Xceptional HR
Author of Tweet This! Twitter for Business
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Great Overview for non-HR Professionals, too!Nov 19, 2008
By V. Adams
As a training and workforce development professional who doesn't have direct experience with the various other responsibilities and concerns that my human resource colleagues must juggle, I have found 'The Essential HR Handbook' to be extremely helpful with the overview it provides.
I would have liked to have seen more substance in the diversity section -- but then, that's at least in part due to my professional bias as a diversity trainer.
Overall, this book is a little gem in an easy read format, quick and to the point -- and we busy folks like that! I highly recommend it!
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