Human Resource Management for the Leisure Industry provides practical guidance on how to create a highly skilled workforce who can adapt and cope with the future changes within the leisure industry. The manual is designed to help leisure managers review their current practice of people management as well as other human resource issues such as manpower planning, recruitment, selection and training. It leads managers through a series of 50 steps allowing them to assess at each stage how recommended activities and practices contribute to the objectives of their organisation and includes various practical case studies. Folowing an overview of trends in human resource management and their implications for the leisure industry, the guide takes the reader through a number of steps they can take which directly link decisions about staff to the overall objectives of the business. The practical steps are grouped into key sections which follow a logical sequence: the organisation mission, culture and structure; matching people to organisations; recruiting and selecting the right people; developing staff; rewarding staff; employee rights under law; putting a value on investing in people; how has organisation changed? By the close of the book, the reader will have been introduced to good practice in the wide field of human resource management as well as being in a position to use them strategically.