Books published by Society for Human Resource Management

From making sense of the pre-hiring process and disciplining employees to creating harassment-free workplaces and uncovering implicit bias, workplace lawyer Adam Rosenthal expertly delivers every manager's comprehensive, go-to practical guide for managing a legally-compliant workplaces and building a positive, productive, and legally-compliant work cultures along the way.Packed with insights and advice, Rosenthal shows step-by-step how to follow the law from hiring to terminations and a wealth of topics in between, including discipling employees, having difficult conversations, conducting performance reviews, and managing remote workers.

Gives readers a new way to think about their careers and delivers practical advice to assess and consolidate individual power then make thoughtful, meaningful changes for a successful transition. Ten fascinating stories bring to life the key components of effective career transition and highlight how each interplay during a career change.

Presents a from-the-trenches guide to the most effective tools, strategies, and processes for attracting, developing, and retaining talent in your organisation. The hard-won techniques outlined in this book can be adapted for organisations of any size and deliver extraordinary bottom-line improvements with relatively little up-front investment.

Featuring fresh insights on fostering collaboration, developing credibility, and building trust, the bestselling author of HR on Purpose!! Steve Browne shows us what a powerful global force the HR profession can be for bringing about meaningful change in the workplace.

Featuries tried-and-true, ready-to-use tools, examples, and resources, this guide teaches the nuts and bolts of HR for small businesses and startups and is the perfect desk reference for any organisation who may not have the financial resources to invest in a fully-staffed HR department.

Popular blogger and CHRO Kris Dunn presents a hard, but compelling reality: every HR professional on the planet can be classified as one of 9 “Faces” based on your career level and your ability to innovate and drive change. The book opens with a behavioral assessment, so readers can quickly identify their own “HR Face” then reveals career tracks, behavioralmarkers, ROI, macro-trends driving behavior, and market demand for each face. Which face are you? Which one do you want to be? Whether you're a solo HR pro trying to make your way in the world or an HR leader trying to build a cohesive HR team, this is your no-BS playbook to empowering your HR career and elevating our profession.

Who hasn't suffered at one time or another from exhaustion, cynicism, and a lack of effectiveness? But combine them over time and you're flirting with a disaster of catastrophic magnitude-burnout. Elegantly defined as the depletion of personal agency (the apparatus driving our ability to initiate and execute actions) burnout effectively wipes out our ability to be effective, much less engaged. And the cost of burnout is astronomical in all its forms and phases, including the profound and lasting effects it has on employees and workplace cultures. Based on extensive research and full of real-world stories and examples, workplace culture experts Rob and Terri Bogue take a deep dive into the signs, sources, and solutions of burnout and deliver an essential resource that helps anyone identify, prevent, and recover from burnout.

Covering guidelines and best practices for building and applying consultative skills, this book features cases studies, worksheets, and additional resources that can be applied every day for defining customer needs, gathering the right data, avoiding common obstacles, building a framework for change, and developing new HR solutions.

An Updated Classic for Reducing Turnover and Improving Engagement. For decades organizations have struggled to better engage and retain their best employees. Retention expert Richard Finnegan proposes a proven and proactive approach, the Stay Interview: an easy-to-use tool to uncover, anticipate, and resolve issues and concerns before your best employees leave. Stay Interviews do three things that employee surveys do not: they deliver information that can be used today; they give practical insights for engaging and retaining top performers; and they provide managers with a reliable process for developing individual stay plans. One of SHRM's all-time bestselling books, The Power of Stay Interviews,is now revised and updated to reflect Generations at work, including Millennials and Older Workers, brand-new Stay Interview questions, and introduces "e;Finnegan's Arrow"e;-a potent business-driven strategy for Stay Interviews.

What do you do well that you don't use at work? In Go Beyond the Job Description,HR professionals and general managers will learn how to increase individual and team contributions by using what they already know and demonstrates in step-by-step style how to increase productivity, motivation, and engagement in individuals with a proven 100-day project called Talent Engagement Optimization (TEO). TEO is using more of what people already have, but are not using, in their jobs. It looks beyond the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities and considers in depth the employee talents, opportunities, and development now and in the future, and incorporates them in practical and meaningful ways that benefits employee and organization. Features include an online assessment to learn your own Talent Engagement Zone, a Development Plan, Strategic Program Transition Plan, and Additional Resources and Tools. A methodical and insightful book with detailed guidelines for any HR manager looking to optimize employee talent and build sustainable engagement, especially those with limited time and funds.