The Progressive Discipline Handbook: Smart Strategies for Coaching Employees (Book w/ CD Rom) - Softcover

Margaret Mader-Clark; Lisa Guerin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141330561X ISBN 13: 9781413305616

Publisher: NOLO, 2007

Synopsis

For the employer who needs an effective approach to coaching and disciplining employees.

In today's litigious world, managers and supervisors must ensure that when they discipline their employees, they do so fairly. Otherwise, they may end up dealing with expensive legal problems.

Fortunately, The Progressive Discipline Handbook helps prevent days in court. A complete how-to guide full of practical and legal advice, you'll find out how to:

identify an appropriate level of discipline

deal with employees when discipline is necessary

correct and monitor problems

prevent future problems

The CD-ROM provides useful forms, checklists and audio dialogues, plus quizzes to reinforce core lessons.

Best of all, The Progressive Discipline Handbook can be used with any progressive discipline policy already in place -- making it easy to implement. It also provides tips and strategies that help managers handle one of the most difficult parts of their jobs: Communicating with employees about discipline problems.

Forms: Sample Disciplinary Form
The Discipline Evaluation Checklist
Other files on CD:
PowerPoint Presentation
Audio Files

About this title

About the Author:

Margie Mader-Clark has worked at the highest levels of the HR profession for more than 15 years, primarily in the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley. She has experienced the power of good management -- and the devastating impact of poor management. Mader-Clark has worked with numerous companies to develop commonsense HR principles to guide their employment policies.

Review:

"An invaluable guide for managers, this book reveals the power of progressive discipline to protect the organization and bring out the best in employees." -- Laura MacKinnon, senior director of HR,Yahoo!

"Recommended for every manager." -- Attorney Amy DelPo, author of The Performance Appraisal Handbook

About this edition

• Publisher: NOLO
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 141330561X
• ISBN 13: 9781413305616
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 485