Human Resources

Name: Creating Your Employee Handbook: A Do-It-Yourself Kit for Nonprofits
Author: Leyna Bernstein
Publisher: Wiley/Jossey-Bass
Type of material: paperback/272 pages
Cost of material: $60.00
Primary audience:
Published: December 1999
Where it can be obtained: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787948446.html

Summary: This book-and-disk set has everything you need to craft an employee handbook that is tailored to your organization's mission, culture, and goals.

Name: Human Resource Policies and Procedures for Nonprofit Organizations
Author: Carol L. Barbeito
Publisher: Wiley/Jossey-Bass
Type of material: paperback/208 pages
Cost of material: $52.00
Primary audience:
Published: January 2006
Where it can be obtained: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471788619.html
E-Book available: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471692077.html

Summary: This book provides a framework for the development of a comprehensive human resource management system, including paid employees, volunteer workers, and outsourced work. It offers extensive sample policies, procedures, and forms that can be easily adapted to individual nonprofit organizations of any size. Topics covered include organizational policies and procedures, nondiscrimination/affirmative action, recruitment, hiring, and termination, compensation, supervision, employment conditions, administration, and volunteer policies.

Name: Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 3rd Edition
Author: Joan E. Pynes
Publisher: Wiley
Type of material: hardcover, 480 pages
Cost of material: $75.00
Primary audience:
Published: January 2009
Where it can be obtained: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470331852.html

Summary: Complete with a free online instructor's manual, this new edition offers current compensation and budgetary guidance and helps practitioners navigate the newest legal and technological challenges and opportunities in human resource management.

Name: Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations -- The Leader's Guide to Finding Constructive Solutions
Author: Marion Peters Angelica
Publisher: Wilder Foundation
Type of material: 192 pages, softcover
Cost of material: $34.95
Primary audience:
Where it can be obtained: http://www.fieldstonealliance.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=37

Summary: A hands-on guide to understanding, identifying, and resolving conflict constructively in your nonprofit. The eight-step process shows you how to spot conflicts, decide whether to intervene, uncover and deal with the true issues involved, and design and carry out a conflict resolution process.