Jan C Salisbury, Bobbi Killian Dominick

Investigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaints

A Practical Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Investigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaints is a hands-on guide for human resource professionals who are called upon to conduct a legally sound investigation into harassment, discrimination, or retaliation complaints. This important manual blends the information investigators need to develop the skills and competencies that are critical to successfully investigating harassment and discrimination complaints with a proven framework for undertaking the investigation itself. Investigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaints walks the investigator through the process of conducting a successful investigation and includes information about: * The critical legal aspects of conducting an investigation * How diversity affects harassment * What needs to be in place prior to an investigation * Creating a step-by-step plan * How to properly document an investigation, and * Administering discipline for policy violations and remedies for aggrieved employees Investigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaints also includes a valuable training program that human resource professionals can use to deliver in-house training programs on harassment investigations. In addition, it contains a wealth of resources including a sample policy, forms to use in an investigation, a sample report, a summary of real-world cases, and government publications from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 829g
• ISBN-13: 9780787968748
• ISBN-10: 0787968749
• Artikelnr.: 12341378

Autorenporträt

Jan Salisbury, M.S., is the president of Salisbury Consulting, which specializes in organization development, implementing diversity in U.S. and global organizations, leadership development, team building, and change. For the past twenty years she has facilitated the resolution of hundreds of harassment and discrimination complaints throughout the country. Bobbi Killian Dominick, J.D., SPHR, has practiced law for seventeen years--practicing employment law and successfully defending companies accused of discrimination and harassment. She currently operates a successful HR consulting firm, Dominick Legal Solutions.

Rezensionen

"A clear and well-articulated guide for those who conduct, study,challenge, or defend these highly-charged investigations.Incorporating the best research and leavened by the authors' manyyears of practical experience . . . . The chapter on "Debriefingthe Workgroup" is by itself worth the price of the book."
-- Louise F. Fitzgerald, professor of psychology and women'sstudies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"There was a time in America when success was equated with thediscovery and refinement of natural resources like coal and oil.Today, success in business is equated with the selection anddevelopment of human resources. This book should be requiredreading for all workplace leaders responsible for organizationaldevelopment and ultimately ensuring fairness and equity when facedwith issues of harassment."
-- Dennis Karras, senior vice president, human resources andadministration, Washington State Employees Credit Union

"Investigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaintswill become a mainstay resource for anyone conducting harassmentinvestigations. Born out of decades of experience, the informationin this book will raise the bar of quality for investigations,reports, and testimony in harassment cases."
-- Donna M. Stringer, president, Executive Diversity Services,Inc.