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Best Boss Ever: An Insider's Guide to Modern People Management
by Kris DunnManaging people is tough, especially when you're new and expected to get it right from day one. Best Boss Ever is a hands-on, entertaining guide for managers and aspiring managers who want to build strong teams and get the most out of their people. Written by popular HR voice Kris Dunn ("KD"), the book is packed with practical tools, conversation guides and cheat sheets to support the most critical moments in the manager-employee relationship. From performance talks to growth plans, this guide shows you how to lead with clarity, confidence and authenticity.Smart, actionable and refreshingly funny, it's your go-to resource for becoming the manager your team deserves.
Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity That Works
by Kent Plunkett Heather BussingPay equity is no longer optional - it's a legal, strategic and cultural imperative. Getting Pay Right explores why equitable compensation is critical to attracting talent, ensuring compliance and fostering productivity. As regulatory technologies evolve and employees gain greater access to pay data, organizations must prioritize fairness and transparency in their compensation practices. This book demystifies pay equity, showing how internal fairness, external competitiveness and clear communication create stronger, more engaged workplaces. Readers will learn how to build pay systems that comply with the law, reflect shifting workforce demographics and demonstrate genuine respect for employee contributions. Wise, practical, and forward-looking, this is a must-read for HR leaders and executives shaping tomorrow's workplace.
Talking Taboo: Making the Most of Polarizing Discussions at Work
by Alexander AlonsoWhat happens when polarizing topics surface in the workplace? It depends on how we handle them. In Talking Taboo, SHRM Chief Knowledge Officer Dr. Alexander Alonso explores why certain topics - like politics, race, religion, sex, and gender - are often considered off-limits at work, and what happens when they inevitably arise. Drawing on insights from the "2020 SHRM Survey of Politics and Polarizing Discussions in the Workplace", Alonso offers real-world dialogue examples, research-based findings, and practical tools to assess, manage, and engage in difficult conversations constructively.This timely and essential guide helps leaders and teams move beyond discomfort to create more inclusive, thoughtful, and resilient workplace cultures.
Preparing for the SHRM-SCP® Exam: Workbook and Practice Questions from SHRM
by Charles GloverThis updated SHRM Certification workbook delivers exam prep with real questions. Seventy practice items used in past SHRM-SCP® exams are provided to give certification candidates exposure to the types of items they will encounter in the real exam, as well as feedback about correct responses. Also offers guidance about each item’s difficulty level, which can help develop study and test-taking strategies plus more emphasis on utilizing and understanding the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge® (SHRM BASK®).
HR Unleashed!!: Developing the Differences That Make a Difference
by Steve BrowneGreat HR is about more than policies - it's about people, purpose, and positive impact. In HR Unleashed!!, bestselling author Steve Browne shares heartfelt personal and professional stories that inspire HR professionals to embrace their calling and do their best work. With the same energy and authenticity found in HR on Purpose!! and HR Rising!!, the author encourages readers to pursue excellence while making a real difference in the lives of employees, the success of organizations, and the betterment of the workplace as a whole.This book is both a challenge and a celebration - a reminder that when HR leads with intention, it can change the world.
Manager Onboarding: 5 Steps for Setting New Leaders Up for Success
by Sharlyn LaubyManagers play a vital role in onboarding but rarely receive onboarding themselves. Manager Onboarding offers HR and business leaders a practical roadmap for creating structured onboarding programs specifically for managers, whether newly hired or recently promoted.While onboarding touches nearly every part of the employee lifecycle, this book zeroes in on the early-stage support managers need to succeed. From recruiting and training to coaching and performance management, managers must lead confidently and yet often lack the same foundation we give new hires. Filled with real-world examples, stories and actionable advice, this book blends just enough theory with proven practices to help organizations build programs that elevate leadership from day one.
Motivation-based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best
by Carol QuinnHiring great talent takes more than checking qualifications - it requires uncovering who will truly excel. In Motivation-based Interviewing, hiring expert and popular keynote speaker Carol Quinn presents a proven approach for identifying top performers by evaluating not just skill, but also attitude toward overcoming obstacles and how passionate they are about achieving your goals - key indicators of long-term success. This definitive guide offers a reliable system to help interviewers expose subtle yet critical differences between average candidates and those who will thrive. With clear techniques and real-world insights, Quinn equips HR professionals, hiring managers and recruiters to make smarter, more confident hiring decisions.If your goal is to build a high-performance team, this book is your ultimate hiring handbook.
The Practical Guide to HR Analytics: Using Data to Inform, Transform, and Empower HR Decisions
by Lindsay McFarlane Valerie Streets Shonna D. Waters PhD Rachael Johnson-MurraHR professionals are increasingly expected to understand and apply data analytics, but many don't know where to start. The Practical Guide to HR Analytics offers a clear, practical guide to understanding and applying data to real-world HR issues. From making the business case for analytics to launching an HR analytics function, the book walks readers through the forms, uses, and interpretations of data in an HR context. It covers essential topics like avoiding common pitfalls, visualizing data effectively and using storytelling to communicate findings. With straightforward language and actionable advice, it helps demystify analytics for professionals at all levels.Whether you're new to analytics or seeking to sharpen your skills, this is your go-to resource for data-driven HR.
Predicting Business Success: Using Smarter Analytics to Drive Results
by Matt Betts Shane Douthitt Scott Mondore Hannah SpellHR leaders know people drive business results but often struggle to prove it with data. Predicting Business Success empowers HR professionals to move beyond basic metrics and directly connect talent data to the outcomes executives care about. This practical guide provides a step-by-step approach to scaling analytics organization-wide, making talent profiles predictive and using data to inform key areas such as hiring, onboarding, surveys and training. With actionable strategies for data collection and application, it shows how to embed analytics into everyday decision-making at every level. For HR teams looking to increase influence and drive measurable business impact, this book is an essential roadmap.
Unquittable: Finding & Keeping the Talent You Need
by Jim BitterleWinning the war for talent takes more than good intentions. It takes strategy, commitment and execution. Unquittable is a no-nonsense, from-the-trenches guide to building talent practices that actually deliver results. Drawing on the author's experience helping hundreds of companies become more talent-minded, this book offers proven tools, techniques, and processes for hiring, developing and retaining great people. With laugh-out-loud stories that reveal both what works and what doesn't, readers will gain valuable insights into the personalities, pitfalls and breakthroughs involved in managing talent.Perfect for leaders and HR professionals alike, this engaging guide shows how even small changes can drive big results, without requiring a massive investment.
Mastering Consultation as an HR Practitioner: Making an Impact in Small Business (Making an Impact in Small Business HR)
by Jennifer CurrenceHR professionals are uniquely positioned to lead transformation, but doing so requires a consultative mindset. Mastering Consultation as an HR Practitioner equips HR professionals with tools and frameworks to advise leaders, define organizational needs, and implement lasting change. This practical guide offers best practices for data gathering, problem-solving and solution development, all grounded in a consultative approach. Featuring real-world case studies, worksheets and ready-to-use resources, it helps practitioners apply strategic thinking to everyday challenges and elevate their value within the organization.Whether you're supporting a business unit or driving company-wide initiatives, this book shows how to build trust, influence outcomes and lead with impact.
View from the Top: Leveraging Human and Organization Capital to Create Value (Making an Impact in Small Business HR)
by Patrick WrightOrganizations face mounting pressure to thrive amid volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. View from the Top explores how HR leaders can turn these challenges into competitive advantages by building robust human and organizational capital. Drawing on contributions from prominent chief human resource officers and HR thought leaders, the book offers real-world case studies, conceptual models and original research that together create a comprehensive roadmap for value creation. It provides insight into how strategic HR can address current challenges while positioning organizations for long-term success.Essential reading for HR professionals and business leaders, this book bridges theory and practice to equip readers with tools and frameworks they can apply directly in their own organizations.
Clocking Out: A Stress-Free Guide to Career Transitions
by Raymond LeeCareer change can be daunting, but it also offers powerful opportunities for growth. Clocking Out provides a fresh framework for navigating career transitions by helping readers assess their personal power, mindset and agility.Through ten compelling real-life stories, the book explores how key elements - choice, mindset, trust and adaptability - interact during periods of change. Each story reveals lessons and strategies for making intentional decisions and building confidence during professional shifts.Perfect for anyone contemplating a career move or reevaluating their direction, this book offers both inspiration and practical guidance for taking the next step.
HR Rising!!: From Ownership to Leadership
by Steve BrowneHR has the potential to be a powerful force for transformation - if we're bold enough to rise to the challenge. In HR Rising!!, bestselling author and HR leader Steve Browne delivers a call to action for HR professionals to reexamine their impact and lean into their role as catalysts for change. With fresh insights on collaboration, trust-building and credibility, the author encourages readers to reflect on how HR can improve not only organizations, but also the lives of the people they serve and their own professional fulfillment.Uplifting and practical, this book reminds HR practitioners that their influence is far greater than they may realize.
The Price of Pettiness: Bad Behavior in the Workplace and How to Stomp It Out
by Alexander AlonsoBeyond the usual everyday annoyances and exasperations we all experience in the workplace, pettiness limits careers and opportunities on a broad scale and sometimes crosses the line into criminal behavior.Based on recent research conducted by SHRM, this groundbreaking book examines the seemingly limitless depths of workplace pettiness - as well as the remarkable heights of creativity it seems to inspire in people - and delivers proven tools for anyone to spot pettiness and deal with it directly. In addition to revealing the root cause of pettiness and what can be done to eliminate it, Dr. Alonso also offers insights into the personal and organizational costs associated with petty behavior and shows how HR can be its most fierce adversary. But perhaps best of all, he shares some of the most incredible true stories about petty behavior in the workplace you'll ever read!Filled with unforgettable examples, this is essential reading for anyone ready to build a healthier, more productive workplace.
The SHRM Essential Guide to Employment Law: A Handbook for HR Professionals, Managers, Businesses, and Organizations
by Charles H. FleischerUnderstanding workplace law is essential for managing risk and maintaining strong employer-employee relationships. The SHRM Essential Guide to Employment Law is a clear, practical reference covering over 200 employment law topics that employers, HR professionals and small business owners are most likely to encounter. Using accessible language and real-world examples, it explains key legal principles, flags potential pitfalls and helps readers know when to seek professional counsel. Each chapter highlights core issues and offers concrete guidance to support compliance and better decision-making.Fully updated in its second edition, the guide includes new content on remote work, severance agreement provisions, salary history inquiries, non-compete restrictions, NLRB rules and more making it an indispensable resource for today's workplace.
Talent Fix Volume 2: A Leader's Guide to Recruiting Great Talent
by Tim SackettCorporate recruiting has been broken for decades, but fixing it is easier than you think. The Talent Fix offers a practical, scalable blueprint for transforming talent acquisition into a strategic, results-driven function. With step-by-step guidance and real-world stories from top-performing organizations, the book shows how to apply simple organizational designs, technologies and best practices to dramatically improve recruiting outcomes. Whether you're starting from scratch or optimizing an existing function, this guide helps HR leaders and recruiters build the systems and culture needed to consistently attract top talent.Smart, straightforward and packed with proven solutions, it's the playbook every talent acquisition leader needs.
Go Beyond the Job Description: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Talents, Skills, and Strengths in Organizations
by Ashley PrisantWhat strengths are your employees leaving untapped, and how can you change that? Go Beyond the Job Description introduces the Talent Engagement Optimization (TEO) framework, a 100-day plan that helps HR professionals and managers leverage the skills and capabilities employees already have but don't fully use at work. With step-by-step guidance, the book shows how to increase motivation, productivity and engagement by aligning individual talent with meaningful organizational goals. It features an online assessment to identify your Talent Engagement Zone, plus practical tools like development plans, transition guides and resource kits to ensure long-term success.This is an ideal resource for time-pressed HR managers seeking to do more with what they already have - people included.
HR's Greatest Challenge: Driving the C-Suite to Improve Employee Engagement and Retention
by Richard P. FinneganNothing contributes more to productivity than getting employees to give their best and stay.HR's Greatest Challenge shows HR leaders how to shift engagement and retention from secondary HR metrics to top-tier business imperatives. With voluntary turnover at historic highs and employee engagement at alarming lows, this book makes the case for executives - not HR - to own these issues, while HR plays a vital coaching and strategic role. It offers tools to translate turnover and disengagement into financial terms, train managers in stay interviews and forecast team stability with business-focused precision.Practical, persuasive and data-driven, this is the guide HR executives need to solve engagement and retention as business-critical challenges.
Digitizing Talent: Creative Strategies for the Digital Recruiting Age
by Jessica Miller-MerrellIn a fast-moving talent market, digital recruiting is a game-changer for employers seeking top candidates. Digital Recruiting offers a comprehensive, expert-led guide to leveraging digital platforms, tools and strategies to find, attract and engage both active and passive job seekers. Written by Workology founder and renowned podcaster Jessica Miller-Merrell, this book explores the evolving recruitment landscape and provides actionable tactics that meet the expectations of today's digitally savvy candidates. From social sourcing and employer branding to automation and analytics, the book is a practical resource for staying ahead in the hiring game.Whether you're new to talent acquisition or refining an existing strategy, this is an essential playbook for modern recruiters.
Proving the Value of HR: How and Why to Measure ROI
by Dr Jack Phillips Patricia Pulliam PhillipsMeasuring the return on investment (ROI) of human resources programs is critical for success in today's business world and is an absolute requirement for HR professionals who are part of the senior executive team.This revised and updated second edition of Proving the Value of HR illustrates the use of ROI methodology as a communication tool that strengthens the relationship with senior management as well as a process-improvement tool that enhances and improves HR's contributions to the bottom line.With this guide, HR managers will prove their value to their companies by learning how to measure ROI in a variety of programs, policies, practices and solutions; develop the ROI of HR with basic, step-by-step instructions; and collect, analyze and report data with sophistication.
Digital HR: A Guide to Technology-Enabled Human Resources
by Deborah WaddillIt's an exciting time to be in HR as scores of technologies including AI, predictive modeling, real-time data analytics, HR shared service centers and others are being implemented at a rapid pace by HR leaders around the world every day.Digital HR expertly addresses the revolutionary trends and disruptive technologies to provide HR executives, managers, specialists, generalists and students with a comprehensive and evidence-based guide to current technologies that enhance, enable, revitalize and empower Human Resources. With practical insight, real-world case studies, tips and tools, recommendations and additional resources, the author guides readers through each of the major technologies and addresses vital strategic and implementation issues.Designed for HR professionals and students at all levels, the book explores how these tools can enhance decision-making, streamline operations and create more agile, strategic HR functions.
Defining HR Success: 9 Critical Competencies for HR Professionals
by Debra J. Cohen Alexander Alonso James N. Kurtessis Kari R. StrobeToday's HR professionals are expected to be valued team members and contribute as business partners, delivering strategic value and solving complex talent challenges to achieve growth for the organization.Defining HR Success provides a deep dive into the nine core competencies that define high-performing HR practitioners:· HR Expertise (HR Knowledge)· Business acumen· Communication· Consultation· Critical evaluation· Ethical practice· Global and cultural effectiveness· Leadership and navigation· Relationship managementThe book helps readers assess their current capabilities and build the skills needed to lead and influence within their organizations. With clear explanations and practical applications, it's an essential guide for aligning HR strategy with business growth and provides HR professionals with a roadmap for personal development and professional excellence in a rapidly evolving field.
Managing Employees Without Fear: How to Follow the Law, Build a Positive Work Culture, and Avoid Getting Sued
by Adam RosenthalManaging people is rewarding, but it can be risky without the right guidance. Managing Employees Without Fear is a comprehensive, practical guide for managers seeking to lead teams effectively while complying with employment laws. Workplace attorney Adam Rosenthal walks readers through the full employee lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding to discipline, performance reviews and terminations. The book covers essential topics such as harassment prevention, implicit bias, managing remote workers and having difficult conversations, all presented in a clear, step-by-step format.Packed with real-world insights and practical tools, this is an indispensable resource for managers who want to lead with confidence, fairness and compliance.
Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by Gordon A. Martin Jr.Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county’s residents were Black, only twelve Black people were on its voting rolls. United States v. Lynd was the first trial that resulted in the conviction of a Southern registrar for contempt of court. The case served as a model for other challenges to voter discrimination in the South and was an important influence in shaping the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Count Them One by One is a comprehensive account of the groundbreaking case written by one of the Justice Department’s trial attorneys. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., then a newly minted lawyer, traveled to Hattiesburg from Washington DC to help shape the federal case against Lynd. He met with and prepared the government’s sixteen Black witnesses who had been refused registration, found white witnesses, and was one of the lawyers during the trial. Decades later, Martin returned to Mississippi and interviewed the still-living witnesses, their children, and friends. Martin intertwines these current reflections with a commentary about the case itself. The result is an impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage, oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped liberty and the South.