Recently updated and expanded to include more topics including a federal law chart and HealthCare Reform Compliance.

This practical HR management handbook for the solo practitioner gives you the guidance and tools to run your HR department effectively and efficiently. Whether you’re the person new to HR or an HR manager in a solo environment, it will help you perform your HR function with the best of the them.

Includes how to align HR with your company’s goals, build credibility and influence, understand HR ethics, cope with management expectations, learn effective staffing strategies, and use HR metrics to prove your contributions.

Practical chapters show you how to get big HR performance with a limited staff:

• Overview of compliance, federal and state issues, and best practices
• At-a-glance reference summarizes all key laws you must comply with such as posting requirements, staffing, hiring and firing, the legal side of compensation and benefits, privacy concerns, harassment
• Training for organizational excellence
• You get nine steps to effective training, training preparation, topics for training, documentation, evaluating effectiveness
• Prewritten forms, policies, and HR checklists
• Carefully developed templates save you time and money
• Align HR’s goals with the company objectives
• How to find out what your CEO really wants, and keep your efforts focused
• Keys to building credibility and influence
• Learn how to engage other managers and get their support, plus ethics for the HR professional
• The strategic HR planning process
• Gives you practical guidance and tools for HR communications, handbooks, budgeting and resource allocation, recordkeeping, recruiting, hiring and interviewing, etc.