This book will help you come to terms with redundancy; then help you to examine all your employment options. One of these will be self employment, and you’ll discover a number of opportunities that are available to specialist and experienced managers from a wide variety of backgrounds. For those wanting to start their own business it looks at the different options for starting a product-based or service-based business, or for buying a franchise or an existing business. Whichever route you choose, you will find help and advice on studying and defining your market, raising finance, building your business and managing the ongoing admin.

This title gives readers advice on how to survive the first few weeks of redundancy. It explains how to redefine one's work motivations, how to create a professional job search strategy and network one's skills and how to approach self-employment.

Redundancy: The Law and Practice explores redundancy law from a practical standpoint. Containing sections on redundancy payments, unfair dismissal, and collective redundancies, as well as a number of practical tools, the book is an invaluable resource for practitioners working in the area. Now in its third edition, the book has been fully revised and extended to accommodate the extensive changes in legislation that have been implemented since the publication of the second edition in 2001. It considers the effect of the statutory disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedures in redundancy dismissals following the Employment Act 2002, along with the impact of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, and the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. It analyzes the wealth of recent case law, particularly with reference to the changes to employer obligations arising from the decision in UK Coal Mining Ltd v NUM & BACM 2007] (EAT) and the new rules on collective consultation following Junk v K hnel and Susie Radin Ltd v GMB. Including extensive appendices, charts, specimen letters and forms, Redundancy: The Law and Practice is an invaluable reference for any practitioner working in the area of employment law.

Redundancy, restructuring, downsizing. There are few, if any, other management books on this important topic, and yet the pace of redundancies has only accelerated in recent years. Coupled with this, many companies that implement redundancies as a cost-cutting exercise often fail to achieve their goal. Whilst viewed as an uncomfortable topic by many, guidance on how to implement a redundancy programme that is fair, proportionate and ultimately leads to improved organisational performance, has never been more needed. This book fills this important gap. It takes the reader through a redundancy implementation strategy – Re-Focus, Re-Organise and Re-Build – that incorporates the key aspects of planning and analysis, fairness and justice, and prepares management for redundancy implementation through training. What will your communications include? What will be your strategy for implementation? What training does your management need? Various helpful template examples are included for employee consultation, communication and training. The book will be invaluable for business managers, HR professionals, employee representatives and HR students.

Management: The Basics provides an easy, jargon-free introduction to the fundamental principles and practices of modern management. Using examples ranging from people management at Cadbury and the Enron crisis to the marketing of fried chicken in China, it explains key aspects of management, including: * planning effective business strategy to meet goals * how successful marketing works * how organizations are structured and function * how to understand corporate finance * what affects how people work and effective human resources management * the importance of knowledge and culture. This informative and accessible guide is ideal for anyone who wants to understand what management is and how it works.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 is the new version of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and offers valuable new advantages for improving the manageability of Microsoft servers and applications. With this book, you’ll get high-level instruction for using Microsoft’s powerful server administration tool to manage Exchange Server 2007. Focused on monitoring and managing Exchange Server using Microsoft’s powerful new server admin tool, this book delivers exactly the information you need to deploy, manage, and maintain Systems Center Operations Manager 2007.

Written by experts in the field, this well-established book covers the core fundamentals of HRM and examines contemporary issues such as work-place bullying, flexibility and emotion at work.