A Manager's Guide to Employment Law: How to Protect Your Company and Yourself (J-B-Umbs Series) - Hardcover

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Dana M. Muir is associate professor of business law at the University of Michigan Business School, where she teaches in executive education and the UMBS M.B.A. program. She was recently appointed delegate to the White House and Congressional National Savings Summits. Previously, she spent nine years in human resources at the Chrysler Corporation and practiced law at two large firms.

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A Manager's Guide to Employment Law:

• Explains the fundamental concept of employmentlaw employment-at-will and how it has changed over recent years
• Coaches managers on the specifics of evaluating the opportunities and risks associated with workforce decisions
• Covers all the topics that are of most interest in today's workplace including hiring, firing, discrimination and e-mail and Web usage monitoring
• Presents legal information in a way managers can easily understand it

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Managers at all levels are constantly challenged to do more with fewer employees, to motivate diverse groups of people, and to face up to tough people problems in their workforces. An important key to managers' success is accomplishing these goals while protecting themselves and their companies from legal liability. Yet some in management tend to blame legal requirements for hindering progress toward solving problems. U.S. law, however, provides managers with broad discretion in many employment situations and in most cases helps ensure that managers perform their essential functions in a way that is fundamentally fair while still supporting company goals.

A Manager's Guide to Employment Law will help managers make day-to-day decisions on how best to manage their employees and handle issues of legal liability. Expert author Dana Muir identifies the subtle and unnecessary mistakes managers make that cause legal headaches and shows how becoming familiar with basic principles of employment law will enable them to develop an internal compass to help make the right decisions. Each chapter focuses on legal concepts of broad application in today's workplace, providing real exam ples of problems managers face and offering strategies for addressing those problems.

Unlike most employment law books for managers, A Manager's Guide to Employment Law avoids legalese and is organized around the issues that actually arise in today's workplace, including hiring and promoting employees, checking employee references, evaluating employees, terminating employees, avoiding illegal discrimination and minimizing liability if it does occur, managing employees with disabilities and issues of lost work time, and more. Full of invaluable practical advice, this book shows how familiarity with legal principles can help managers select, motivate, and lead their employees with greater confidence and effectiveness.