The bite sized guide to delivering great HR
Employment Bites is split into 21 (UK Edition) and 26 (NZ edition) easy-
Employment Bites is a how to guide for anyone who works in HR. Rather than a text book, you’ll find real examples of how to apply HR in the real world, with practical suggestions, tools and techniques. First published in New Zealand in 2010 by HarperCollins, Employment Bites became a best seller and Angela wrote a UK edition too. The Global Edition will be available shortly.
Bite 1 What is HR? The good, the bad and the ugly.
Bite 2 Essential Employment Law (NZ only): Legislation you must know
Bite 3 Health and Safety (NZ only): The processes you need to keep people safe
Bite 4 Writing HR / People Plans: How to help your business succeed
Bite 5 Attracting Candidates: Getting the right people to apply
Bite 6 Successful Selection: Choosing the right people to employ
Bite 7 Easy Employment Agreements (NZ only): How to make them shipshape & watertight
Bite 8 Ingenious Induction: Bringing your new employees on board
Bite 9 Perfect HR Policies: How to have the right policies in place
Bite 10 HR Analytics: Big & small metrics to measure & plan
Bite 11 Wonderful Wellness: Healthy employee equal a healthy business
Bite 12 Perfect Performance Reviews: How to set up the right system to measure
Bite 13 Clever Competencies: Models for measuring skills, experience & knowledge
Bite 14 Learning & Development (NZ only): How to grow employee and managers skills
Bite 15 Succession, Talent Management & Career Development: Tapping into and managing your key employees
Bite 16 Workforce Planning: It’s not just about ‘bums on seats’
Bite 17 Remuneration & Benefits: It’s all dollars and sense
Bite 18 Inventive Incentives: Designing bonus and incentive schemes
Bite 19 Recognition & Rewards: With or without a budget!
Bite 20 Delivering Diversity: Why and how to make your company diverse
Bite 21 Managing Change: Making your changes work
Bite 22 Culture & Engagement: If you build it they will come…..
Bite 23 Restructuring & Redundancy: Supporting your company through difficult times
Bite 24 Disciplinary Issues: Supporting managers & dealing with challenges
Bite 25 Termination & Dismissals: When the exit sign glows
Bite 26 HR Technology: The top HR technology tools to use
Employment Bites Book Review
Angela Atkins is the author of the popular and helpful Management Bites which I reviewed in the November 2009 issue of Employment Today.
The earlier book was aimed at line managers, breaking people management into easily digestible chunks and explaining how to do each step. It is a wonderful resource for an HR practitioner as you can use relevant sections of the book to help coach the managers you are working with.
This new book has a different intended audience. It is written directly for the HR professional, to guide our own practice. As before, the book is divided up into individual sections, each covering a separate area of HR expertise and giving the basic “how to’s” of that topic.
As I have a background in psychology and analysis, I am more than comfortable with the organisational development and HRIS/metrics side of human resource management. However, employment relations is an area I want to grow in technically, and I look for easy-
Another feature of the book is the use of developmental exercises. I found this really useful as it helped me to focus in on some areas that I need to focus on and grow. I recommend that you take the time to do these exercises as you will get the benefits.
Whatever your strengths, and whatever your developmental needs in HR, you will find something to help you in this book. Written for the New Zealand employment environment, it is practical, warm and very human. Go out and buy a copy for yourself and one for your HR group. While you are at it, add in a copy of Atkins’s earlier book (Management Bites) and you will have the perfect reference set.
Employment Today
About Angela Atkins
Angela Atkins has worked in HR and Learning & Development for over 20 years within local government, tertiary, retail, contact centres & the financial services sectors.
After spending most of her career in New Zealand,.in 2016 Angela relocated to the UK to launch Elephant Group there. Since then she has lived in California, and is now based in Bordeaux, France.
Angela is also the author of the best-
- Management Bites: the bite size guide to managing people,
- Training Bites: the bite size guide to workshops, presentations and L&D
- Safety Bites: the bite sized guide to keeping people safe at work.
Founded in New Zealand in 2006 by Angela and Fraser Atkins, we always had big plans for elephant! We developed and refined our programmes over time then in 2016 we went global. We’ve never looked back and develop all our programmes this way.
Our programmes focus on actual outcomes with practical tools and techniques you can use straight away. We discuss real life not just theory and we make it fun!
We design and run programmes globally with customised parts for each country. And we have local experts facilitate our workshops. You get the best of both worlds.
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