HR & Legal Matters

Outlines the development of a high-performing business team and relates how the manager may direct the group most efficiently.

Provides information on setting up an S-corporation, covering such topics as developing a business plan, corporate bylaws, shareholders meetings, stocks, employee documents, business accounts, and taxation, along with a variety state-specific legals forms on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Manage employees effectively while avoiding legal trouble. If you supervise employees or independent contractors, The Manager's Legal Handbook is the perfect resource. Need information about overtime? Want useful ideas on workplace policies? Have a question about trade secrets and need the answer now? This book provides everything you need to stay within the bounds of the law, including information: hiring, discrimination and harassment, wages and...

By 2025, some 70 percent of the workforce will work remotely at least five days each month. But to succeed, Takako Hirata believes that leaders can't simply transfer what they've been doing in the physical office to the remote environment. It takes new leadership principles. In The Virtual Leader, Takako shares the unique remote work strategies she developed and tested over a decade as Head of International Business Development at ROHTO Pharmaceutical...

"A limited liability company can give a small business both tax benefits and protection from personal liability for business debts. But without careful record keeping, regular meetings, and formal minutes, it could lose these advantages. This book provides all the instructions and forms needed to maintain the legal validity of an LLC. Forms include: Call of Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Certification of Mailing of Notice; Membership Voting Proxy; Minutes...

"The two authors, both consultants with McKinsey, took stock of the most common questions they are asked by their clients in the areas of human capital, organization design, transformational change, and merger management. Containing the latest thinking on the most effective answers to those questions, this book offers leaders and senior managers support of their efforts to harness the full potential of their organizations. This new book offers an...

"Explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable In our fast-changing demographic landscape, companies that proactively embrace diversity in all areas of their operations will be best poised to thrive. Renowned business leader and visionary Carol Fulp explores staffing trends in the US and provides a blueprint for what businesses must do to maintain...

"This book provides everything business owners, managers, and HR professionals need to create or update a legal and plain-English employee handbook. It provides the latest legal information, practical suggestions, and best practices on: wages and hours; remote work; at-will employment; discrimination and harassment; complaints and investigations; health and safety; drugs and alcohol, including medical/legal marijuana; workplace privacy; and email...