- Hardcover: 816 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.; 3rd Revised edition edition (1 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072314036
- ISBN-13: 978-0072314038
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19 x 3.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,315,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This practical approach avoids legalese and explains the employment laws and potential pitfalls for business owners and managers. The authors lead the reader to analyze employment law using concrete examples of management-related legal dilemmas.
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Website - The website for Bennett will include an overview of the book and its supplements,
a table of contents, features of the new edition and author background information. Instructors will have access to downloadable supplements, teaching tips/ideas from the authors, case updates and Internet Question answers. The student portion of the website will include Internet Question Links, Employment Law Resource links with a summary for each, and links to Colleges.com and Business Week. Author Laura P. Hartman will be heavily involved in providing content updates for the site.
Expanded coverage of labor law. Because Labor Law is a very different and discrete part of the law than employment law, the authors feel it is important that students be familiar with all the concepts to have a more complete knowledge of the workplace.
The authors have removed unnecessary 'legalese' and procedural matters from the cases in the text, so that students can better understand the managerial aspects of the case, not just the legal concepts and issues at hand.
Case-end questions are designed as critical-thinking questions to get the student go beyond the legal concepts and think critically about management issues from an employer's standpoint. The authors feel addressing the issues in the way they are likely to arise in life greatly enhances a students learning ability and likelihood of recognition and understanding of these situations when they arise in the workplace.
Inclusion of boxed items from everyday sources such as People and USA Today shows students how text material relates to real management situations in the workforce.
Background information is provided on relevant social or political movements so students know the history behind the laws in place.
An icon denoting the presence of URLs at the book website are provided in the margin of the text for students to do further research on the topic currently being discussed.
a table of contents, features of the new edition and author background information. Instructors will have access to downloadable supplements, teaching tips/ideas from the authors, case updates and Internet Question answers. The student portion of the website will include Internet Question Links, Employment Law Resource links with a summary for each, and links to Colleges.com and Business Week. Author Laura P. Hartman will be heavily involved in providing content updates for the site.
Expanded coverage of labor law. Because Labor Law is a very different and discrete part of the law than employment law, the authors feel it is important that students be familiar with all the concepts to have a more complete knowledge of the workplace.
The authors have removed unnecessary 'legalese' and procedural matters from the cases in the text, so that students can better understand the managerial aspects of the case, not just the legal concepts and issues at hand.
Case-end questions are designed as critical-thinking questions to get the student go beyond the legal concepts and think critically about management issues from an employer's standpoint. The authors feel addressing the issues in the way they are likely to arise in life greatly enhances a students learning ability and likelihood of recognition and understanding of these situations when they arise in the workplace.
Inclusion of boxed items from everyday sources such as People and USA Today shows students how text material relates to real management situations in the workforce.
Background information is provided on relevant social or political movements so students know the history behind the laws in place.
An icon denoting the presence of URLs at the book website are provided in the margin of the text for students to do further research on the topic currently being discussed.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Employment Law for business
6 Jan 2004
Format:Hardcover
As an attorney, manager, and teacher of human resources professionals, I recommend this book. I found that thie information was thoroughly researched. I also appreciated that the legal information was presented in a business context so that managers who are not lawyers could understand the information and readily appy it to real life workplace problems.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Good book for in the class and in the office
15 Feb 2003
Format:Hardcover
This book gives a good comprehensive look at the mountain of law and regulations encountering employees in both the public and private sector. The examples in the beginning of each chapter are very useful as well as the actual cases used to exemplify how the law has been applied to real-world situations.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Very good textbook for an introduction to employment law
10 July 2008
Format:Hardcover
A number of reviews of this book are unfairly critical. Reviewers who criticize it on the basis of being too "liberal" or "anti-management" seem to be missing an obvious point. Regulating the employment environment is an inherently liberal idea, designed to protect "common" workers at the expense of the organization and its representatives. Whether you like this system or not is irrelevant; this is the way that employment law in the US currently exists, and the book describes it accurately without any more "bias" than any other book on the topic.
As for the flow and writing, the authors do throw a lot of terminology at the reader in the first few chapters, but this is unavoidable when trying to translate an advanced legal topic for an audience without any legal training. Despite this challenge, the writing and explanations are very clear, and many difficult concepts are illustrated with EXCELLENT case studies and snippets from opinions. I find that students sometimes have trouble with the layout of the book because it is not organized by laws and statutes, but rather by legal concepts and case types that sometimes cut across multiple laws and statutes. Consequently, issues discussed several chapters back do "pop up" again seemingly out of the blue. However, this structure is actually a major strength as the reader can easily find everything about a topic (e.g., gender discrimination) in one place without having to hunt statute-by-statute through the book to find the applicable content.
In short, a great introduction for someone new to employment law, and definitely the book to use if teaching a course on this topic.
As for the flow and writing, the authors do throw a lot of terminology at the reader in the first few chapters, but this is unavoidable when trying to translate an advanced legal topic for an audience without any legal training. Despite this challenge, the writing and explanations are very clear, and many difficult concepts are illustrated with EXCELLENT case studies and snippets from opinions. I find that students sometimes have trouble with the layout of the book because it is not organized by laws and statutes, but rather by legal concepts and case types that sometimes cut across multiple laws and statutes. Consequently, issues discussed several chapters back do "pop up" again seemingly out of the blue. However, this structure is actually a major strength as the reader can easily find everything about a topic (e.g., gender discrimination) in one place without having to hunt statute-by-statute through the book to find the applicable content.
In short, a great introduction for someone new to employment law, and definitely the book to use if teaching a course on this topic.
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