Books on Personnel Issues

Available from the James V. Brown Library

R 653.1 RAM
A Company Policy & Personnel Workbook. Ramey, Ardella and Carl R.J. Sniffen. Cental Point, OR: The Oasis Press, 1999.

This workbook is designed to orient the person or committee who has the responsibility for developing a policy manual. It provides a comprehensive and adaptable set of policies that attempt to balance employee and employer rights and expectations. Discussions of laws and regulations and other related issues are given in Comment sections located before each policy. It provides some charts, forms and outlines made easily accessibly by a list after the contents page.
 

R 658.3 COO
The Complete Do-It-Yourself Personnel Department, 2nd Ed. Cook,
Mary F. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.
This work provides the necessary information to establish or manage a human resource function in a company. It provides policies, procedures, guidelines, sample letters, forms and checklists that address common HR issues and problems. It provides tips, glossaries, and most-used tables and formulas for quick reference. A chapter, each, is devoted to samples of Personnel Letters and Memos, Personnel Checklists, and Personnel forms. An accompanying CD allows for customization of many of the letters and forms in the book, using Microsoft Word.


R 658.3 JEN
The Hiring, Firing (and Everything in Between) Personnel Forms Book. Lawson, James M. Ridgefield, CT: Round Lake Publishing, 1996.
This book is especially suited for companies that are not staffed with a formal personnel department. It makes its information quickly accessible by providing a detailed table of contents as well as both alphabetic and keyword indexes. The questioning--why, what where, how-format of the book lends clarity to each personnel issue. Sample forms are grouped together within each section and clearly identified in the contents, making them easily accessible.

R 658.3 LAW
How to Develop a Personnel Policy Manual, 6th Ed. Lawson, Joseph W. R. New York: American Management Association. 1998.
This work provides large and small employers with a simple, how-to-do-it approach to developing a personnel policy manual. It provides guidelines for policies, handy policy manual checklists at the beginning of each section to help readers select the policies needed for their manuals, along with ready-to-use policy statement samples.

R 653.311 MAN
Managing Human Resources in the New Century: Recruiting, Retaining & Terminating Employees. Lewis, Jackson, Editor. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL: American Chamber of Commerce Publishers. 2002.
This work gives an overview of legal and practical issues to consider when making employment decisions. It also provides best practices and tools to use in recruiting, retaining and terminating employees, such as sample forms, statements and letters.

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