Personnel Practice - Softcover

Lewis, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852928165 ISBN 13: 9780852928165

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2000

Synopsis

The IPD's Certificate in Personnel Practice (CPP) is a course for all newcomers to personnel and HR. Updated for the second edition, this text for CPP students examines topics including: the basic legal framework relating to employment; recruitment and selection; training and development; discipline and grievance handling; appraisal and wider performance management schemes; and maximizing the effectiveness of personnel information systems. This second edition includes up-to-date legal context and new material on such subjects as assessment centres, empowerment, competency frameworks and behaviour-based interviewing.

About this title

From the Author:

When first appointed as a personnel manager in the nineteen eighties, after much experience in industrial relations, I found there was lots of personnel-related pragmatic knowledge that I was lacking. Years later, Tricia Jackson and I were tutoring on the Certificate in Personnel Practice (CPP) programme and we concluded that this course needed a suitable textbook that would provide the same essential practical material. I also felt that smaller businesses, not employing a personnel professional, would need much of this crucial information.

From the outset the, now Chartered, Institute of Personnel and Development were enthusiastic about the idea of a course textbook and their CPP syllabus provided an ideal structure and an excellent content guide. As you might expect, the book is now immensely popular with those on the CPP programme.

But we were particularly delighted that Bob Patchett, in his review for Croners Personnel Assistant Handbook, thought fit to state that: "the book is comprehensive and detailed enough to stand alone as a guide to sound practice in managing people".

The book does indeed seem to find a broad market and we hope it is making an appropriate contribution to the process of managing people successfully.

malcolm.martin@employersolutions.co.uk
employersolutions.co.uk

About the Author:

Malcolm Martin is lead tutor for the Certificate in Personnel Practice programme at Manchester Open Learning. Tricia Jackson is also an experienced practitioner and is now a freelance consultant and tutor.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0852928165
• ISBN 13: 9780852928165
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 206