A Manager's Guide to Employment Law (eBook)

How to Protect Your Company and Yourself

Dana M. Muir (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2003 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7879-7065-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Managers at all levels are constantly challenged to do more with
fewer employees, to motivate diverse groups of people, and to face
up to tough people problems in their workforces. An important key
to managers' success is accomplishing these goals while protecting
themselves and their companies from legal liability. Yet some in
management tend to blame legal requirements for hindering progress
toward solving problems. U.S. law, however, provides managers with
broad discretion in many employment situations and in most cases
helps ensure that managers perform their essential functions in a
way that is fundamentally fair while still supporting company
goals.

A Manager's Guide to Employment Law will help managers
make day-to-day decisions on how best to manage their employees and
handle issues of legal liability. Expert author Dana Muir
identifies the subtle and unnecessary mistakes managers make that
cause legal headaches and shows how becoming familiar with basic
principles of employment law will enable them to develop an
internal compass to help make the right decisions. Each chapter
focuses on legal concepts of broad application in today's
workplace, providing real examples of problems managers face and
offering strategies for addressing those problems.

Autor

Dana M. Muir is associate professor of business law at the University of Michigan Business School, where she teaches in executive education and the UMBS M.B.A. program. She was recently appointed delegate to the White House and Congressional National Savings Summits. Previously, she spent nine years in human resources at the Chrysler Corporation and practiced law at two large firms.

Inhalt

Series Foreword.

Preface.

1. Employment Law from a Manager's Perspective.

2. Selecting Employees.

3. Evaluating Employees.

4. Avoiding Discrimination.

5. Dealing with Disabilities and Lost Work Time.

6. Terminating Employees.

Notes.

The Author.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Managers face potential legal issues on a daily basis. If you
manage people, you should read this book. At times it seems that
employee advocacy and protecting company rights and assets are at
odds with each other; this book offers a practical approach to
attaining both simultaneously!"

-- DeShawn Clayton, human resources manager, The Pepsi
Bottling Group

"It's clear that experience and common sense are not enough to
insure that you will avoid legal issues involving all the aspects
of managing people. In A Manager's Guide to Employment Law,
Dana Muir provides us with some compelling examples and clear
explanations that underscore this point."

-- John E. Brune, supervisor specialty engine and components,
Powertrain R&D, Ford Motor Company

"Everyone who manages people will want to read this book. In
today's work environment no manager can afford to make mistakes
that result in legal liability."

-- Jack Sinometti, Adjunct Professor of Executive Education,
University of Michigan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2003
• Reihe/Serie: J-B University of Michigan Business School Management Series
• Reihe/Serie: J-B University of Michigan Business School Management Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Business & Management • Human Resource Management • Management • Organisationsverhalten • Organizational Behavior • Personalmanagement • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 0-7879-7065-4 / 0787970654
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-7065-9 / 9780787970659