"Putting personnel policies on paper -- clearly, accurately, and legally -- is crucial for successful employee relations. And the classic How to Develop a Personnel Policy Manual has been the key to making this laborious task as quick, painless, and effective as possible. Now appearing in a fully updated Sixth Edition, this essential reference guides HR professionals through the entire process of planning, developing, and writing the manual. It includes hundreds of sample policies covering every important topic, from hiring to benefits to termination, along with planning checklists and synopses of relevant employment laws."

Here's a guide for all managers charged with creating and updating their company's human resource policy manuals. This definitive handbook not only covers all areas of employee relations, it also tackles the full range of critical contemporary HR issues, such as AIDS, substance abuse, and chemical safety. Managers can take advantage of how-to istructions to organize and write a manual, timesaving checklists and worksheets, and invaluable tips on how to write personnel policies that lead to clear understanding and interpretation. Alerting the reader to legal pitfalls, the handbook covers employment policies, leaves of absence, pay, discipline and discharge, benefits, union relations, and more. Plus, its 100 helpful illustrations include sample forms, flow charts and a complete sample policy manual.

This second edition of the Handbook of Employee Selection has been revised and updated throughout to reflect current thinking on the state of science and practice in employee selection. In this volume, a diverse group of recognized scholars inside and outside the United States balance theory, research, and practice, often taking a global perspective. Divided into eight parts, chapters cover issues associated with measurement, such as validity and reliability, as well as practical concerns around the development of appropriate selection procedures and implementation of selection programs. Several chapters discuss the measurement of various constructs commonly used as predictors, and other chapters confront criterion measures that are used in test validation. Additional sections include chapters that focus on ethical and legal concerns and testing for certain types of jobs (e.g., blue collar jobs). The second edition features a new section on technology and employee selection. The Handbook of Employee Selection, Second Edition provides an indispensable reference for scholars, researchers, graduate students, and professionals in industrial and organizational psychology, human resource management, and related fields.

Human Resources Procedures for Employee Management can help you easily create the Human Resources (HR) policies and procedures manual you need to ensure the fair treatment of employees as required by Federal law. Thoroughly researched and reviewed by experts in the field, this important organizational resource provides more than 800 pages of content based on best practices, and it addresses important issues such as COBRA, HIPAA, ADA, FMLA, and other major Federal employment regulations. This quality hardback edition also covers important employer/employee topics such as job descriptions, hiring and termination, compensation and benefits, training and development, as well as general HR administration. It also includes a sample Employee Handbook and an HR Managers Manual. Designed for busy professionals such as HR Executives, Office Managers, and Business Owners, Human Resources Procedures for Employee Management is an important tool in managing the most important resource in your business - your employees. This new edition also includes updated and complete job descriptions for every job referenced in the text. Given the broad range of topics that fall under the HR rubric, creating a system of policies and procedures can be a daunting task. Fortunately, with Human Resources Policies and Procedures Manual there is no need to start from scratch - it's already been done for you!

Fiscal realities and changing social priorities are requiring a dramatic shift in the way that benefits are selected and awarded to employees, especially in the public sector. This means that public administrators and policy researchers must consider new parameters and contingencies, both financial and social, when evaluating choices and making pol