The Employee Performance Handbook : Smart Strategies for Coaching Employees (Edition 2) (Paperback)

This book is a how-to guide for employers of any size that want to effectively discipline their employees to improve performance, morale, and productivity. In this book, you'll find all of the information and tools you need to create or modify your progressive discipline policy, respond to employee problems with the appropriate level of discipline, communicate with employees to improve performance, and minimize legal risk when it's necessary to terminate an employee. Everything you need to coach employees and get troubled performers back on track

Confronting employees about poor performance is an ordeal dreaded by managers and HR pros everywhere. The possibility of emotional outbursts--and the specter of a lawsuit--leave many would-be disciplinarians at a loss.

The Employee Performance Handbook is a complete how-to guide for employee discipline. Packed with practical and legal advice, this book offers smart strategies that will help you improve employee performance and avoid legal trouble. You'll learn how to:

• identify problems early on
• decide when discipline is necessary
• choose the right response to a problem
• engage employees in improving performance
• collaborate with employees to come up with solutions
• fire employees when necessary
• protect against wrongful termination lawsuits
  

With Downloadable Forms
You can download sample policies, sample forms, checklists, skills-building exercises, and more, at nolo.com (details inside).