Mastering Human Resource Management (Master Series (Business))

Mastering Human Resource Management provides an authoritative and accessible guide to this dynamic and fascinating topic. Fully up-to-date, this book encompasses all aspects of the most recent UK and European legislation and case law. Ideal as a valuable study text for the personnel management student, for quick reference by the busy manager or as a problem solver for the interested employee. It takes the reader on an A-Z tour on all matters concerned with managing Human Resources and helps provide direct answers to the day to day issues of managing staff. KELVIN CHEATLE is Director of Human Resources at Broadmoor Hospital. He has held senior appointments in local government for Kent County Council and has worked on major Government enquiries on HR issues. As a consultant in the voluntary sector, he wrote A Code of Employment Practice for NCVCCO in 1996. Introduction to HR Management.- The Legislative and Good Practice Framework.- Recruitment, Retention and Selection.- Contracts.- Pay and Benefits.- Personnel Information Systems and Workforce Planning.- Equal Opportunities.- Employee Relations.- Redundancy, Reorganisation and Transfers.- Health & Safety and Risk Management.- Employee Support and Welfare.- Training and Development.- New Developments.- Selected Reading List.- Further Services/Bibliography.- Index.