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HR How-To: Performance Management

Topics Covered

HR How-To: Performance Management is one of the books in the new CCH® HR How-To Series, which presents the key information you need to know concerning important human resource issues. Delivered in a matter-of-fact, "conversational" style, the Series provides an easy-to-scan listing of typical topics and questions most often asked by HR professionals. The content is explained in easy-to-follow terms, and then demonstrated through "stories" in order to apply the concepts to realistic and familiar workplace settings. The information is intuitively organized by the professional's day-to-day encounter with real-world issues. The HR How-To: Performance Management covers topics such as how to: How to deal with real-life performance management situations How to help managers and supervisors set performance expectations How to guide supervisors on drafting written perfomance reviews How to reward and recognize outstanding employee performance How to confront and resolve performance problems

Benefits and Features

• "What You Need to Know" section where critical must-know issues are presented in a quick fact form;

• "What-If" scenarios that explore gray areas, providing insights into real-life, challenging situations. Within these scenarios you'll also see:

  • Best practices to learn what has worked effectively for others,

  • Worst case scenarios often the most effective way to learn,

  • What went wrong for others and how to avoid the same results,

  • Strategies for communicating information to your workforce, including samples, case studies, graphical representations, mnemonics, and more;

• Checklists that summarize the information most useful to your HR work;

• Step-by-step how-to's;

• Self audits;

• Quizzes to measure retention of material learned.