A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice

(there are more euphemisms in this area of management than the rest of the areas put together). Being placed in this often invid ...

they have been forced to leave their jobs or because they have seized new opportuni- ties. The national culture has changed too. ...

Plan ahead Planning ahead means anticipating future reductions in people needs and allowing natural wastage to take effect. A fo ...

Outplacement Outplacement is the process of helping redundant employees to find other work or start new careers. It may involve ...

If it is a fairly large redundancy, the media will have to be informed, but only after the internal announcement. A press releas ...

Outplacement consultancy services As described by Eggert (1991), the outplacement process usually takes place along the followin ...

Selecting an outplacement consultant There are some highly reputable outplacement consultants around; there are also some cowboy ...

Fair dismissal Dismissals may be held by an employment tribunal to be fair if the principal reason was one of the following: ● i ...

incapability or misconduct was sufficient to justify dismissal), the tribunal still has to decide whether or not the employer ac ...

There should be a disciplinary procedure which is understood and applied by all managers and team leaders. The procedure should ...

Pre-retirement training can cover such matters as finance, insurance, State pension rights, health, working either for money or ...

Performance management Performance management processes have become prominent in recent years as means of providing a more integ ...

The basis of performance management In this chapter the nature, aims, characteristics, concerns and guiding principles of perfor ...

AIMS OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT The overall aim of performance management is to establish a high performance culture in which ind ...

the joint and continuing review of achievements against objectives, requirements and plans. But it is also concerned with inputs ...

objectives. But performance is a matter not only of what people achieve but how they achieve it. The Oxford English Dictionary c ...

The real concept of performance management is associated with an approach to creating a shared vision of the purpose and aims of ...

Most employees want direction, freedom to get their work done, and encouragement not control. The performance management system ...

● We expect line managers to recognize it (performance management) as a useful contribution to the management of their teams rat ...

● Performance management is what managers do: a natural process of manage- ment. ● Based on accepted principles but operates fle ...