Grappling with how to best attract, interview, and select the right candidates for critical jobs in your organization? Plagued by doubts and anxieties over how to weed out problem employees - without trampling egos or getting slapped by a lawsuit? The Hiring and Firing Question and Answer Book comes through with quick and reliable answers to more than 100 questions that confound and overwhelm managers, human resources professionals, and recruiters.

The Hiring and Firing: Question and Answer Book

Falcone, Paul

Business & Money

Amacom Books

Inappropriate attire, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, not to mention productivity and communication issues--these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics bosses must sometimes discuss with their employees. With years of experience as the VP of employee relations at major entertainment companies, author Paul Falcone offers unique insight into the tools and skills required for managers to address some of the most common--as well as the most serious--employee problems they are likely to encounter. Falcone’s book 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees equips managers to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees by offering realistic sample dialogues managers can use to sidestep potential awkwardness. Covering everything from substandard performance reviews to personal hygiene to termination meetings, this handy guide helps managers treat their people with dignity, focusing not just on what to say but also on how to say it. With a plethora of proven, realistic techniques, managers will learn how to protect themselves and their organizations--and get the very best from their people.

101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges

Business Culture

AMACOM

Every harried interviewer knows the result of throwing out vague questions to potential employees: vague answers and potentially disastrous hiring decisions. Presented in a handy question-and-answer format, 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire provides readers with the tools they need to elicit honest and complete information from job candidates, plus helpful hints on interpreting the responses. The book teaches interviewers how to: identify high-performance job candidates; probe beyond superficial answers; spot red flags that indicate evasions or untruths; get references to provide real information; negotiate job offers to attract winners; and much more. With more than 100,000 copies of the first edition sold, the revised and updated edition of this go-to resource is packed with new material on background checks, specific challenges posed by the millennial generation, and ideas for reinventing the employment application to gather more in-depth information than ever before. Through ample tools, tips, and questions to choose from, managers and human resources professionals will be equipped to select winning candidates from among any pool of interviewees.

96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire

Job Hunting & Careers

101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

Provides examples for handling such personnel problems as insubordination, absenteeism, e-mail misuse, drug or alcohol abuse, and sexual harassment

Management & Leadership

There's no escaping problem employees. But with 101 prewritten disciplinary write-ups at a manager's fingertips, there is a way to escape the headaches, anxiety, and potential legal trouble of performance review or counseling sessions. Completely updated and covering the latest developments in employment law, the second edition of "101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems" explains the disciplinary process from beginning to end and provides ready-to-use model documents in print and on disk that eliminate the stress and second-guessing about what to do and say. Expertly written, the write-ups cover every kind of problem substandard work quality, absenteeism, insubordination, e-mail misuse, sexual harassment, drug or alcohol abuse, and more. Readers will also find new information on laying the ground work for a tidy dismissal; tying progressive discipline to annual performance reviews; formally addressing intermittent FMLA abuse; ways to avoid drafting documenta

A natural follow-up to the bestselling 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews, this easy-to-use book provides the key to ensuring positive performance reviews--setting effective performance goals. You’ll discover a plethora of ready-to-use phrases organized by the characteristics and core competencies most often evaluated during the appraisal process. Author Paul Falcone tailors these skills to be compatible with the most common positions, like sales and marketing, accounting and finance, HR, IT, legal, manufacturing, and operations so managers in any field can equip their teams for success. As a manager, you aren't truly successful unless your employees are as well. But their success depends on you. Complete with handy bonuses like an individualized development plan (IDP) tool, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals teaches readers to not only set expectation on the basics like attendance, attitude, teamwork, and time management--you’ll learn how to craft goals that internally motivate your employees to achieve phenomenal results.

2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get Results

The key difference between a highly successful organization raising bars at every turn and one that limps along just happy to reach its quarterly goals--most of the time--might very well be how they address performance reviews. Are they just a perfunctory, annual “check-off,” with no other goal than to justify salary increases, or does the organization truly know how to manage and measure its employees’ performances in order to best impact a company’s bottom line?In The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit, readers will discover a customizable appraisal template covering the essential areas of performance and conduct and learn how they can adapt it to fit varying business strategies. After all, every organization is a unique entity, therefore, the performance appraisal plan must also be unique to its company. In order to find the process that best increases efficiency and effectiveness in your workplace, learn how to:• Profile ideal employee performance and behavior • Design competencies that power performance, both at the individual and enterprise level • Drive future change by setting your organization's strategic direction • Retool the appraisal as needed to ratchet up expectations over time• And moreThere’s nothing more valuable to a company in the long-term than a motivated and dedicated workforce. This forward-thinking, one-of-a-kind guide gives you the resources you need to construct a performance appraisal program that will accommodate market changes, revised priorities, and increasing productivity targets--and in the end, will lift your organization to a higher level.

The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit: Redesigning Your Performance Review Template to Drive Individual and Organizational Change

Tan, Winston

Products and services will change with demand, but one thing that will always be required for a company’s success is having the right people working hard for you. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? In this accessible and practical playbook, HR expert and author Paul Falcone helps take the guesswork out of this crucial element for success, showing managers how to:• Identify the best and brightest talent• Hire for organizational compatibility• Address uncomfortable workplace situations• Create an environment that motivates• Retain restless top performers• Delegate in a way that develops your staff• And much more!Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew--best practices that would enable the entire organization to operate more effectively. Falcone’s book 75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees has encapsulated all of this for you in a single indispensable resource!

75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees

Whether you’re addressing an initial infraction or handling termination-worthy transgressions, you need to be 100 percent confident that every employee encounter is clear, fair, and most importantly, legal. Thankfully, HR expert Paul Falcone has provided this wide-ranging resource that explains in detail the disciplinary process and provides ready-to-use documents that eliminate stress and second-guessing about what to do and say.Revised to reflect the latest developments in employment law, the third edition of 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems includes expertly crafted, easily customizable write-ups that address: sexual harassment, absenteeism, insubordination, drug or alcohol abuse, substandard work, email and phone misuse, teamwork issues, managerial misconduct, confidentiality breaches, social media abuse, and more!With each sample document also including a performance improvement plan, outcomes and consequences, and a section of employee rebuttal, it’s easy to see why over 100,000 copies have already been sold, making life for managers and HR personnel significantly easier when it comes to addressing employee performance issues.

Every manager and human resources department has seen it time and time again--candidates whom they viewed from across the table as promising individuals loaded with potential turning out to be disappointing and underwhelming employees. Meanwhile, numerous resources are wasted yet again while the company continues to seek out the right fits for their needs. Is this just a rite of passage for all businesses, or is there a way to simplify the hiring process and put people in place the first time who can get the job done?The third edition of this practical and wildly popular hiring classic provides the keys to getting the results you’re looking for during the interviewing and hiring process! Employment expert Paul Falcone has packed this resource full with all the interview questions you might possibly need to ask any candidate, so as to best reveal the real person sitting across from you. What is the applicant’s motivation for changing jobs? How well does he handle stress? Does she consistently show initiative? The various questions have been tailored to sales, mid-level, or senior management positions. There are questions to gauge likability and fit. There are even pressure-cooker questions that will no doubt reveal eye-opening characteristics about the candidate that you would not have learned otherwise.Complete with guidelines for analyzing answers, asking follow-up questions, checking references, and making winning offers, 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire covers the interviewing and hiring process from beginning to end, leaving no stone unturned.

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The Hiring and Firing: Question and Answer Book

101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges

96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire

101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get Results

The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit: Redesigning Your Performance Review Template to Drive Individual and Organizational Change

75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees

101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire