Personnel Management [Paperback]

This volume has been designed to assist the new personnel manager, and to encourage the more experienced manager to question established techniques. The text stresses the development of strategies and practices relevant to the circumstances of individual organizations.Definitions of personnel management; planning for people in organizations; recruitment and selection; introducting the individual to the organization; the law and the rights of the new employee; involving the individual in the job; appraising performance; training for current jobs; developing people for the future; looking after employees - welfare and counselling services; the law and the rights of the individual employee; fair pay and employee benefits at work; managing with trade unions; employee participation in managerial decision-making; dismissal, redundancy and retirement; evaluating personnel functions.