"Provides easy an easy-to-use practitioner-based reference guide to build, expand, and improve fundamental human resource practices to integrate HR as a strategic component in the success of small businesses and start-up companies. Features include: HR essential policies and practices with adaptable tools and templates Talent management strategies for small companies/start-ups. Change management strategies during expansion and growth. A supplemental professional development assessment for leaders/managers"--
Launch Your Startup with a Dream Team: A Guide to Smart HR for Early-Stage Success Fuel your startup's journey with the right crew from the very beginning! This practical guide cuts through the noise and guides you through the essential HR practices every startup needs to master, from crafting a winning culture to finding the perfect fit for your team. You'll learn: Build a thriving foundation: Define your core values, create a vibrant culture, and attract top talent who align with your vision. Find the perfect fit: Go beyond resumes and discover individuals who share your passion, possess growth potential, and fit seamlessly into your team. Onboard for success: Make new hires feel welcome, equipped, and confident from day one. Manage performance effectively: Set clear goals, provide constructive feedback, and foster employee growth. Retain your top talent: Invest in your people, promote work-life balance, and show them their contributions matter. Leverage the power of outsourcing: Discover how partnering with the right HR experts can save you time, money, and stress. This book is your roadmap to building a high-performing and engaged team that propels your startup to success. By implementing these expert-backed strategies, you'll: Focus on what you do best: Run your business without HR headaches. Save time and resources: Spend your energy on growth and innovation. Attract and retain top talent: Build a dream team that drives results. Minimize risk and ensure compliance: Rest assured your HR practices are on point. Remember, your people are your most valuable asset. Invest in them wisely with this essential guide.
With The Everything HR Kit, whether you are a newcomer or a veteran, you can set up a stellar HR department from scratch. Packed with ready-to-go checklists, sample brochures, job descriptions, customizable forms, interview questions, performance review templates, and more, this one-stop book puts tons of best practices at your fingertips—all instantly accessible and easy to implement. The book gets right to the heart of HR, and the heart of any successful business—your people. It avoids the theory, jargon, and over-analysis to bring you the core strategies and essential knowledge you need to bring quality people on board, for good, such as reputation, recruitment, selection, on-boarding, employee relations, and performance management. You’ll learn how to: • Create a powerful recruitment brochure that lures great people • Set up “bird dog” bonuses to make everyone in your circle of influence a recruiter all the time • Ask probing questions that pinpoint a candidate’s communication style, problem-solving style, stress behaviors, and coaching style • Steer clear of illegal or problematic interview questions, and adhere to crucial labor laws • Match the right people to the right jobs using proven instruments like the Role Behavior Analysis combined with the Personal Profile System • Design a benefits package that works best for your organization and its people • Prepare an “out-of-the-box” employee handbook that instills values and makes a great first impression—plus much more
The Only HR Book You’ll Ever Need! “Whether you’re a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, this book will help you handle any personnel problem—from on-boarding to outplacement—quickly and easily.”—Solutions Review For more than a decade, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to the ins and outs of human resources. And no wonder! Because whether you're a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, The Essential HR Handbook will help you handle any personnel problem--from onboarding to outplacement--quickly and easily. This fully updated 10th anniversary edition is packed with information, tools, checklists, sample forms, and timely tips to guide you through the maze of personnel issues in today's complex business environment. In The Essential HR Handbook you'll find out how to: Attract talented staff through social media recruiting Identify legal pitfalls to avoid lawsuits and regulatory interference Train a diverse and inclusive multigenerational workforce Provide the compensation and benefits package that will make your organization an "employer of choice" Streamline your orientation and onboarding practices so new employees hit the ground running Whenever personnel problems arise, having The Essential HR Handbook on your bookshelf is like having a team of expert HR consultants at your beck and call!
Protect yourself and your small business! The book explains in simple, clear language what business owners and managers need to know about their relationship with their employees in order to comply with the law and protect themselves and their business from being sued. The new edition of this book includes everything from recruiting and hiring to discipline and termination and everything in between. Updated legal information has been added on the new minimum wage law that employers must be aware of, the right to privacy for employees, especially in terms of their email, Internet usage, and phone calls, and what employers need to do to comply with disability laws and FMLA. The appendices in this book include required postings in the workplace, legal holidays, online resources for employers and human resource professionals, a sample employee handbook outline, an employer tax calendar, and a complete glossary of terms.
A complete guide with CD-ROM, this book helps employers develop the critical HR policies and procedures of their organizations' needs, from identifying and documenting them to administering them. Fifteen key policies and procedures include guidelines for managers and supervisors to communicate more clearly with employees.
Talent management is the most evergreen of HR topics because finding and keeping the best talent is a constant business imperative. But talent management moves quickly, and you have to stay ahead of the trends to be successful at hiring, engaging, coaching, and retaining top talent.The SHRM Essential Guide to Talent Management is your professional desk reference and go-to guide, full of practical solutions, expert insights, and best practices to help you get unstuck when you're faced with any talent management challenge. Sharlyn Lauby addresses hundreds of topics organized by the eight core Talent Management components identified by SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management:*Strategic and Workforce Planning*Talent Acquisition*Onboarding and Employee Engagement*Performance Management
Many small businesses need direction in human resources management. Small businesses generally are not large enough to hire their own Human Resources Manager, but are still in need of human resource information and tools. In some cases with smaller companies, this responsibility is the burden of the owner, a "senior" staff member who is not trained in Human Resources (HR) or in a worst case scenario, no one.With these in mind, this is the main objective of this Human Resource Guidebook. This Guidebook is an informational kit to help small businesses deal with the key human resources activities. It is also designed to provide these small business owners and managers with tools and techniques to develop their HR skills.This Guidebook will provide an overview and importance of each of the key HR activity as well as the processes involved. It contains components which are aimed at providing both essential information and additional support for small businesses. Understanding that you may be busy, this Guidebook is also structured to get to the point and provide you with quick information as well as templates and forms which you can easily amend to suit your business needs.
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
