Employment Bites

OUT NOW!! March 2010!

Employment Bites is a practical, how to guide for anyone who works with employment issues or responsibilities. Whether you're an HR manager, HR adviser, PA, line manager or small-business owner, you'll find information about every area of HR and how to make your company more effective and a great place to work.

Employment Bites is split into 23 easy-to-manage bite-sized chunks, each one dealing with one particular area of HR including:

  • How to implement an effective HR plan
  • New Zealand employment case law examples
  • Attracting and recruiting the right people and inducting them effectively
  • Measuring performance, developing skills and managing talent
  • Dealing with disciplinary issues, restructures and dismissal
  • Remuneration systems, benefits and how to recognise and reward employees
  • Managing change and creating retention

    Resources from the book

    In Employment Bites I some mention other resources we have as further reading. Below are some other resources you might be interested in reading. If there are any other areas you would like further information on, let us know and we just may have an article we can send you!

    Bite 16: Terminations and Dismissals: Part of this bite covered Exit Interviews. To download a further article on dealing with some of the issues around exit interviews just click here.

    About Angela

    Angela Atkins is an experienced human resources (HR) and training manager and has learnt some hard lessons about what makes a great HR person and great HR practices. She wrote Employment Bites so you don't make the same mistakes she made and can learn from her experience and that of other HR people who shared their stories with her.

    Over Angela's 13 years in HR she’s learnt that for HR to be practical and useful you have to design processes that address the needs of the organisation, and you work WITH managers, involve them and get them to agree, so the processes actually work.

    For more about Angela's background and her role with Elephant click here!

    • From March 2010 - available at Whitcoulls, Borders, Dymocks, PaperPlus or any good independent bookshop. Recommended retail is $26.99.

    Bulk Orders

    If you are interested in buying several copies for your HR team, or managers, we can provide a bulk order discount AND sign copies of the book. Just email Angela and she can provide a quote.