Human Resources: A Practical Guide
Tim is a UK HR professional and Chartered Fellow of the CIPD with over twenty years of generalist experience in roles across the private, public and voluntary sectors. Alongside his “day jobs”, he has co-written a number of books about HR and management, including the successful “Putting S...
Gemma is an experienced HR Director, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, and a regular speaker and writer on a variety of HR topics including employee engagement, flexible working, wellbeing and social media.
Gemma co-founded The Work Consultancy where she focuses on policy developmen...
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This ebook provides a practical look at Human Resources, written by two experienced HR generalists and bloggers. Drawing on their own careers, it is full of pragmatic advice and straightforward recommendations about how to implement effective Human Resources, and doing good people stuff.
The book includes a look at what makes great Human Resources and great Human Resources professionals, the unique challenges of the HR profession and how to overcome them, through to simple advice on how to create people plans and business cases.
Covering every aspect of the employee lifecycle, along with topics such as social media, employee experience and employee data along with a handy jargon buster, this book is a practical guide to putting into practice straightforward and valued added Human Resources activity.
- The elephant in the room
- Great Human Resources
- Putting the people plan together
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Experience
- Data – big and small
- Recruitment
- Induction
- People Policies
- Employee Engagement. To survey or not to survey?
- Performance Reviews
- Family Stuff
- Caring and Carers
- Absence Management
- Reward
- Recognition
- Learning and Development
- Wellbeing
- The difficult stuff
- Redundancy
- Grievance
- Discipline
- Leadership Development
- Exit
- Non Value Adding Work
- HR Information Systems
- HR and Best Practice
- The Role of the Line Manager
- Making the HR business case
- Social Media
- Ideas, Tips and Random Thoughts
- And finally...