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The Performance Appraisal Handbook

Legal & Practical Rules for Managers

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The Performance Appraisal Handbook: Legal & Practical Rules for Managers

Pub. Date: Feb 2007
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 224 pp
ISBN: 9781413305678
Forms: 14 forms
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Summary

Everything you need to conduct legally safe employee evaluations.

The Performance Appraisal Handbook is a must-read for every manager, whether you’re writing a performance review for the first time or the hundredth. It's packed with the information and tools you need to make your company’s appraisal process work better for everyone.

Find out how to:

  • motivate your staff to perform better
  • help employees develop and grow
  • identify poor performers and help them get on track
  • avoid common legal traps and problems
  • increase employee morale
  • foster good communication
  • safely fire poor performers who fail to improve

Written by an employment-law attorney and reviewed by an expert advisory board, this guide provides a unique combination of practical and legal information, plus easy-to-follow steps. You'll also find checklists, sample forms and policies, and audio dialogues on CD-ROM.

The 2nd edition is completely updated to cover the latest legal developments.  

Press Reviews

"Takes the 'legal guesswork' out of writing and conducting employee performance appraisals, providing all the answers managers need at every step."
HR Magazine
"Offers advice for employers who dread an annual workplace ritual: formal appraisals."
The Boston Globe
"This book should be on the shelf of every supervisor."
Aileen MacMillan,
HR.com
"An evaluation program sounds like a simple matter, but the reality is that unless you are a human resource specialist, the task can be difficult. One place to turn for help is The Performance Appraisal Handbook. "
Attorney Fred S. Steingold,
Author of The Employer's Legal Handbook

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