The 2008 Federal Manager's Guide is available on CD-ROM (single-user access). It's the same content as the print edition, but the CD-ROM is key-word searchable.
A smooth-running federal government is dependent upon each manager's supervisory skills in so many area: recruiting and retaining … handling sick leave … workplace conflict … accommodating disabilities … religious expression … and dozens more. The 2008 Federal Manager's Guide provides guidance on all this and covers retirement and career development. The Federal Manager's Guide is the ultimate management tool for any manager or supervisor in the federal government.
The 2008 Federal Manager's Guide will show you how to:
- Successfully recruit and hire
- Avoid saying the wrong thing during the hiring process
- Handle performance problems
- Develop performance standards
- Ensure you don't unknowingly discriminate on the basis of age, race or color
- Determine whether your employee has a disability and how to determine whether an accommodation is reasonable
- Respond to allegations of sexual harassment
- Delegate work as fairly as possible
- Perform your role in labor-management relations
- Use alternative dispute resolution
- Deliver termination notices
- Tackle computer misuse
- Address suspected sick leave abuse
- Handle FMLA requests
- Manage a contractor workforce
- And much more
Plus, the Manager's Guide gives you easy-to-read charts and synopses of:
- Congressional legislation from 2007 -- and how it impacts you as a manager
- Hiring statistics
- Status of pay-for-performance and similar programs across the government
- Compensatory damages and statistics on EEO complaints
- Senior Executive Service (SES) statistics
- Pay and Retirement tables
