HR For Small Business For Dummies

Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started: So, You Need to Staff Your SmallBusiness 5Chapter 1: Looking at the Big Picture ? Before You Employ7Chapter 2: Building a Recruitment Strategy for Finding the RightPerson 21Chapter 3: Sorting the Good from the Not So Good 41Part II: Getting the Ground Rules and Paperwork for HiringRight 59Chapter 4: The National Employment Standards 61Chapter 5: Modern Awards and Pay 87Chapter 6: Calculating the Real Cost of Employment 111Chapter 7: Hiring: The Importance of the Employment Contract137Part III: Putting the Employment Relationship to Work153Chapter 8: Making a Good Impression: Orientation Programs155Chapter 9: Performance Expectations: the Wage?Work Bargain171Chapter 10: Pay Increase? You Must Be Joking! 185Part IV: The Non-Discriminating Employer 199Chapter 11: Managing Workplace Conflict 201Chapter 12: A Journey through Australian Workplace Rights andEEO 219Chapter 13: Harassment and Bullying ? Gee, Can?t YouTake a Joke? 237Part V: A Healthy Workplace Is a Happy Workplace 247Chapter 14: Safety at Work Is Everyone?s Responsibility249Chapter 15: Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation 265Part VI: The End of the Employment Relationship 283Chapter 16: Resignation of Employment 285Chapter 17: Employee Dismissal: A Matter of Fairness 299Chapter 18: Termination, Change and Redundancy 319Part VII: The Part of Tens 337Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Build a Successful EmploymentRelationship 339Chapter 20: Ten Things You Should Never Do At Work 349Index 355