25 Essential Lessons for Employee Management
Dennis L. DeMay
Facts On Demand Press,
$22.95.
This is a cool book for those who own a business and hire anyone. Why – because a lot of us make the same mistake – we hire people that we like rather than those who may best suited for the position. The 25 lessons covered – in order – are.
1. How to Set the Foundation for a Proper Company Hiring Process
2. Recruitment and Resumes
3. The Importance of a Job Descriptions
4. Make the Basic Application Form and Other Pre-Hiring Forms Work for You.
5. Hiring and Discrimination
6. Pre-Employment Screening Policy
7. Background Checks
8. Pre-Employment Screening Firms
9. Pre-Employment Testing
10. Conducting the Interview
11. Making the Job Offer
12. How to Properly Reject Candidates
13. The New Employee Orientation Process
14. The Employee Handbook
15. Probationary Employment, Temporary Help and Subcontractors
16. Retention Efforts
17. Using Performance Reviews
18. How to Deal with Unsatisfactory Employees
19. How to Handle a Complaint, Grievance or Potential Litigation
20. How to Handle Workers’ Compensation Issues
21. Termination procedures
22. Exit Interviews, Packages & Terminations Meetings
23. How to Comply with State Discrimination Laws
24. How to Comply with Federal Discrimination Laws
25. Answers of How to Comply with Other Legal Issues
OK, so why list all of these out in a review? This little book is 25 books in one, and you need to know what is in it. What this book doesn’t have: It is not polluted with politically correct language. It is direct and to the point, and a must for any person in any business responsible for hiring, or who has input into the hiring decision.
