Employment Law for Business [Hardcover]

Dawn Bennett-Alexander (Author), Laura Hartman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 11, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0073377635 | ISBN-13: 978-0073377636 | Edition: 6

Bennett-Alexander and Hartman's Employment Law for Business, 6/e addresses law and employment decisions from a managerial perspective. It is intended to instruct students on how to manage effectively and efficiently with full comprehension of the legal ramifications of their decisions.

Students are shown how to analyze employment law facts using concrete examples of management-related legal dilemmas that do not present clear-cut solutions. The methods of arriving at resolutions are emphasized, so that when the facts of the workplace problem are not quite the same, the student can still reach a good decision based on the legal considerations required by law, which remain relevant.

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About the Author

Dawn D. Bennett - Alexander is a tenured associate professor of Employment Law and Legal Studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and an attorney admitted to practice in DC and six federal jurisdictions.

Laura P. Hartman is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at DePaul University and is responsible for coordinating Academic Integrity for the university. She is also a Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in the Management Department in DePaul’s College of Commerce, where she has received the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and serves as Research Director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Her academic scholarship focuses on the ethics of the employment relationship with a primary emphasis in the areas of global labor conditions and standards, corporate governance and corporate culture, and the impact of technology on the employment relationship. Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She lives in Chicago with her two daughters, Emma and Rachel.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 880 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 6 edition (November 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073377635
• ISBN-13: 978-0073377636
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #2 in Books > Law > Business > Labor & Employment
  • #3 in Books > Law > English Law > Business
  • #17 in Books > Law > Administrative Law

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Employment Law for business, January 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Employment Law for Business (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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for in the class and in the office, February 14, 2003

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J. Leslie (Pope AFB, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Employment Law for Business (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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good textbook for an introduction to employment law, July 9, 2008

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JJD (NJ, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Employment Law for Business, 5th Edition (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.