Looking for recommended small business Human Resources books that will help your small business start Human Resources programs, processes, and systems that are legal and helpful from the beginning? Take a look at these books which help you address your small business Human Resources issues with wisdom and excellence. They'll bring you success with your employees.
1. Entrepreneur Magazine: Human Resources for Small Businesses
When you start to hire employees, this book will help you build your Human Resources services. It provides easy-to-follow guidelines for advertising jobs, filling positions, hiring, setting wages and benefits, developing workplace policies, sample documents, legal issues and more. A Human Resources office for the small business in a book. (William Sullivan: John WIley and Sons)
2. Developing Your Human Resources: An Operational Approach
Joni Hower provides a practical, hands-on manual for owners, managers, and supervisors who must deal with hiring and developing people. The manual makes working with people fun because you know the rules about what you can and cannot do. Comes with a CD with useful forms and more. (Advanstar Communications)3. Managing Human Resources in Small and Mid-Sized Companies
This small business Human Resources book by Diane Arthur is a long term favorite of mine. It gives you all the information you need to found and develop a Human Resources function in your small business. Bill for companies of 100 to 1500 employees, it is just as useful for small business. (AMACOM)4. 101 Great Ideas for Managing People
These tips, from America's most innovative small companies, are practical, useful, and make sense. Learn the fundamental building blocks for keeping people happy and productive at work. Learn about employee attitudes, employee morale, valuing employees and more in this small business Human Resources management book. (Martha E. Mangelsdorf, Editor: International Thomson Publishing)5. Smart Staffing
Want to know how to locate, interview, and hire good people? This small business Human Resources book tells you how to hire, keep, and reward employees in your growing company. Need interview questions? Want to know what not to ask? The answers are here in this practical small business Human Resources book. (Wayne Outlaw: Dearborn Trade, A Kaplan Professional Company)6. The Payroll Toolkit
This practical handbook covers everything you need to know about pay roll and salary administration in your small business. Find out how to deal with taxes, laws, accounting journal information, withholding, and more from Timothy F. Carse, CPA, Jeffrey Slater, and Noel L. Griese. (Penn & Pearl Publishers)7. Safety and Health Essentials for Small Businesses
Have responsibility for health and safety in your small business industrial work setting? This handbook will help you do the right things right and ensure a safe work environment? The book was written by a team of specialist contributors, under the editorship of William Martin. (Butterworth-Heinemann)8. The Employer's Legal Handbook
An easy-to-understand, easy-to-follow, complete desk reference for small business Human Resources issues and laws. Make sure your small business is in compliance with everything legal and that you understand your rights and responsibilities as an employer by purchasing and reading this handy book. (Fred S. Steingold and Barbara K. Repa: Nolo)9. Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures
Stephen B. Page knows what he is talking about and I recommend this policy and procedure development book for its clarity, conciseness, and ease-of-use. This is a terrific book for anyone who has to develop a system of policies and procedures in their company. The author has three other helpful books, too.(Process Improvement Publishing)10. 1,001 Ways to Reward Employees
Looking for lots of ideas about how to reward and recognize the employees in your small business? Stretch your imagination as Bob Nelson leads you through his 1,001 ideas. Some are silly, some smart, and some are more useful than others, but all will get you thinking about making recognition a priority. (Workman Publishing Company)