The Hiring and Firing: Question and Answer Book

By Paul Falcone

Book Overview

Getting the best employees on board and weeding out the worst -- without getting slapped with expensive lawsuits -- are two of the most crucial and difficult jobs of human resources professionals and general managers.Now there's quick, reliable information on how to do it right. Written by employment expert Paul Falcone, The Hiring and Firing Question and Answer Book contains over 100 commonly asked questions ranging from basic to sophisticated, including: -- Does my company need an Affirmative Action plan?-- Why should I conduct an exit interview?-- How do I find the best Web sites for recruiting employees?-- How do I protect my company from negligent hiring claims?-- How do I terminate a long-term employee with a history of positive performance evaluations?Each question is followed by a short answer and a longer "Tell Me More" section, making the book perfect both as a concise overview and as a practical reference.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814406408
• ISBN13: 9780814406403
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This covers a really wide range of subjects that pretty much every manager, supervisor or HR Rep would have to deal with at some time or another and it explains complicated issues in easy to understand language. I really like the style of this book: For every question it has a brief answer or summary that gets to the point and then has a "Tell me more" section that breaks things down in more detail (but still easy to understand). Plus it gives samples of any kind of letter, documentation, appraisal you would have to administer. I read this book cover to cover, there wasn't anything I skipped over because pretty much every question & answer was useful.

Terrific Reference Book!

Whether you're a human resources professional or an executive or manager in a company without a human resources department, you are confronted by all sorts of difficult personnel questions. Hiring and firing can be highly complicated subjects. Scary. Unless you have someone you can turn to for reliable advice. Never fear. Paul Falcone is here! The author of "96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire" and "101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems" has authored a book that will relieve the stress in your people-management life. Falcone is Director of Employment and Development Paramount Pictures in Hollywood and teaches for UCLA. Here's a resource who knows what he's talking about.This book is organized into two main sections: Hiring and Firing. Under the Hiring Section, you'll find chapters on the hiring process, recruitment tools, online recruiting, interviewing, and making the final selection. The Firing Section begins with a chapter answering common questions about the performance management and termination process. Next, the reader will learn about progressive discipline, terminations for cause and summary offenses, and reductions-in-force and layoffs.Through these chapters, Falcone presents 112 vital questions . . . and answers. Each question is addressed with a basic answer, followed by a section titled "Tell Me More." What a wealth of information! And, as if this weren't enough, the book also includes an appendix with sample policies, agreements, and letters. The comprehensiveness of this section is amazing. A glossary, resource list, and index provide even more value.Highly recommended!

Packed with issues of management responsibilities

Paul Falcone's Hiring And Firing Question And Answer Book tells how best to attract, interview and select candidates for critical jobs. HR professionals in particular will find this is packed with issues of management responsibilities which carefully identifies potential problems and their solutions.

I'm recommending this to all my clients.

First, September 11. Then recession. Next -- and inevitable -- MORE layoffs. There's an easy way and a hard way...a right way and a wrong way...to do what many business managers now have no choice but to do. I'm a management consultant, and this book is a useful guide.