Workplace Investigations: The HR Manager's Step-by-Step Guide

When you uncover employee wrongdoing, or an employee comes to you with a complaint, you have to be ready to investigate. That's why it makes so much sense to have Workplace Investigations: The HR Manager's Step-by-Step Guide close at hand.

Consider these shocking figures:

• 1,486: Average number of wrongful termination, harassment and discrimination claims filed by disgruntled employees every day.
• $770 million: How much U.S. employers paid out recently in just one year to settle EEOC claims of discrimination and harassment.
• 2½ years: Average length, from complaint to settlement, of an employment lawsuit.

In one easy-to-use convenient manual you will find everything you need to get to the bottom of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and many other claims. Plus, you get a bonus CD-ROM loaded with investigation forms, checklists, sample reports, and other documents critical to the execution of a safe and effective investigation.

Inside this practical AND comprehensive guide you’ll find:

• Step-by-step instructions that walk you through each phase of the workplace investigation — from taking the complaint to bringing the investigation to a meaningful close
• Advice on how to keep your investigation compliant, so it can stand up in court
• Proven techniques for deftly managing the participants involved in an investigation: the complainant, witnesses, in-house counsel and senior management
• Easy-to-follow format explaining the legal aspects of a workplace investigation
• Useful exercises that cement the investigation’s most difficult steps: gathering relevant documents and drafting an ironclad final report
• BONUS: CD-ROM, packed with prepared checklists and sample forms you can use in any internal investigation