FAIR, SQUARE, AND LEGAL
A Manager’s Guide to Safe Hiring, Managing, and Firing Practices

Gain the skills to

  • Identify potential employment law violations before they happen
  • Investigate a harassment complaint
  • Write safe job advertisements and job descriptions
  • Conduct safe hiring interviews and performance appraisals
  • Determine what constitutes "reasonable accommodation" for an employee with a disability

Do you know what to do to protect your business, your employees, and yourself from legal liability? Can you defend your actions— or those of your employees — if you do end up in court?

Staying out of trouble is a matter of being prepared. And that's exactly what you’ll learn in Fair, Square, and Legal — clear, unambiguous, step-by-step methods of documentation, compliance, and prevention for every business-related action that can raise legal liability.

Written by a manager for managers, the course translates complex legal concepts and precedents into a set of easy-to-learn guidelines for managing people. It gives you a systematic knowledge of the ways the laws governing equal opportunity and employee rights protect not only your employees, but you, the manager, as well. You’ll see that understanding and adhering to employment law is simply good business.

Learn how to:

  • Recognize a "hostile work environment"
  • Develop an effective sexual harassment policy
  • Take court-approved progressive disciplinary action prior to dismissing an employee
  • Take nine court-recognized steps to manage a workforce reduction

Click here for links to online legal resources.

About the Author
Donald H. Weiss is CEO of Self-Management Communications, Inc., St. Louis, MO. A prominent figure in the training and development field, he has created numerous successful management training programs in all media for leading clients in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Europe. He has also written several popular self-management books.

Course Objective: Understand key aspects of employment law to manage safely and avoid legal liability.

Format: Print
Testing/Credit: One multiple-choice test valued at two Continuing Education Units
Price: $159.00
Stock #: b13813 XWSS3

Instructional Method: Non-Interactive Self Study

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