Contents at a Glance

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started: So, You Need to Staff Your Small Business

Chapter 1: Looking at the Big Picture — Before You Employ

Chapter 2: Building a Recruitment Strategy for Finding the Right Person

Chapter 3: Sorting the Good from the Not So Good

Part II: Getting the Ground Rules and Paperwork for Hiring Right

Chapter 4: The National Employment Standards

Chapter 5: Modern Awards and Pay

Chapter 6: Calculating the Real Cost of Employment

Chapter 7: Hiring: The Importance of the Employment Contract

Part III: Putting the Employment Relationship to Work

Chapter 8: Making a Good Impression: Orientation Programs

Chapter 9: Performance Expectations: the Wage—Work Bargain

Chapter 10: Pay Increase? You Must Be Joking!

Part IV: The Non-Discriminating Employer

Chapter 11: Managing Workplace Conflict

Chapter 12: A Journey through Australian Workplace Rights and EEO

Chapter 13: Harassment and Bullying — Gee, Can’t You Take a Joke?

Part V: A Healthy Workplace Is a Happy Workplace

Chapter 14: Safety at Work Is Everyone’s Responsibility

Chapter 15: Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation

Part VI: The End of the Employment Relationship

Chapter 16: Resignation of Employment

Chapter 17: Employee Dismissal: A Matter of Fairness

Chapter 18: Termination, Change and Redundancy

Part VII: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Build a Successful Employment Relationship

Chapter 20: Ten Things You Should Never Do At Work

Index