The Employee Performance Handbook: Smart Strategies for Coaching Employees - Softcover

Mader Clark, Margaret; Guerin J D, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141332245X ISBN 13: 9781413322453

Publisher: NOLO, 2016

Synopsis

Everything you need to coach employees and get troubled performers back on track

Confronting employees about poor performance is an ordeal dreaded by managers and HR pros everywhere. The possibility of emotional outbursts―and the specter of a lawsuit―leave many would-be disciplinarians at a loss.

The Employee Performance Handbook is a complete how-to guide for employee discipline. Packed with practical and legal advice, this book offers smart strategies that will help you improve employee performance and avoid legal trouble. You’ll learn how to:

• identify problems early on
• decide when discipline is necessary
• choose the right response to a problem
• engage employees in improving performance
• collaborate with employees to come up with solutions
• fire employees when necessary
• protect against wrongful termination lawsuits
  

With Downloadable Forms
You can download sample policies, sample forms, checklists, skills-building exercises, and more, at nolo.com (details inside).

About this title

Book Description

This book is a how-to guide for employers of any size that want to effectively discipline their employees to improve performance, morale, and productivity. In this book, you’ll find all of the information and tools you need to create or modify your progressive discipline policy, respond to employee problems with the appropriate level of discipline, communicate with employees to improve performance, and minimize legal risk when it’s necessary to terminate an employee.

About the Author

Margie Mader-Clark has worked at the highest levels of the HR profession for more than 15 years, primarily in the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley. She has experienced the power of good management -- and the devastating impact of poor management. Mader-Clark has worked with numerous companies to develop commonsense HR principles to guide their employment policies.

Lisa Guerin, an editor and author specializing in employment law, is author or co-author of several Nolo books, including The Manager's Legal Handbook, and The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws. Guerin has practiced employment law in government, public interest, and private practice where she represented clients at all levels of state and federal courts and in agency proceedings. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Guerin's blog on lessons learned by employers and HR professionals on everything from hiring and firing to performance and discipline can be found at Nolo's Employment Law Blog.

Edition details

• Publisher: NOLO
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 141332245X
• ISBN 13: 9781413322453
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 440