Recruiting, Retaining and Releasing People: Managing redeployment, return, retirement and redundancy - Softcover

Mackay, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750683066 ISBN 13: 9780750683067

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

The greater part of an HR budget is spent on recruitment and retaining good people is key to a company's success. This book contains essential and up-to-date material around recruitment and retention including those issues that are currently pressing on companies with regard to flexibilty, returning to work, coaching and skills shortages. The problems of retirement, redundancy and dismissal are also addressed which is an integral part but not included in many texts. It provides the student and the professional with one place to find all the aspects and consequences of good practice in recruitment and retention.

About this title

About the Author

Adrian Mackay

From the Back Cover

Recruiting the best people gives managers a head start in running successful organisations. But there is
more to recruiting than just hiring people – retaining them is crucial, yet we accept that they may ‘move
on’ at some stage; thus releasing people professionally is a key skill.
This book takes a pragmatic view of the key facets of human resource management – and serves as a
handy guide for managers, HR professionals and students alike.

The book guides you through:

• Recruitment – how to manage the process successfully
• Retention – how to keep the best people
• Redeployment – what you need to consider
• Women Returning to Work – a down-to-earth guide
• Job Evaluation Schemes – what they are, how to organise them and best practice
• Appraisals – a goals orientated approach
• Briefing, Assessing, Reinforcing and Coaching People – key skills for every manager
• Discipline and Grievance – what to do when things go wrong. New approaches to procedures
and practices required from the new legislation
• Retirement – how to help people plan for the inevitable
• Redundancy – a guide to the process for managers and staff
• Removal – how to leave gracefully and let them go professionally
• The Future of Work – so where to now? A thought-provoking summary

This text aims to provide hard-working, pressurised managers with a practical guide to the key
management processes in recruiting, retaining and releasing people. It is written for the manager of today
that needs an accessible resource to turn to in times of need.

It has also been written as a comprehensive companion text for students studying the Chartered
Management Institute ‘people management’ modules and the CIPD Professional DevelopmentScheme
and each chapter highlights which part of each syllabus is being addressed.

The companion volume to this text is Motivation, Ability and Confidence Building in People by the
same author.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750683066
• ISBN 13: 9780750683067
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272