title: Developing personnel policies to keep you out of the courtroom: the role of the office policy manual.
abstract: Employment liability has become an important issue for all enterprises. Medical practices often are not aware of the impact their policies and actions may have on their employees and the liability that may result. This article surveys this important area of human resource management and provides some guidelines to avert potential pitfalls.
authors.affiliation: Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, Obermayer's Health Law Department, 1617 JFK Boulevard, 19th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. joan.roediger@obermayer.com
authors.forename: Joan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Roediger
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000379:methods*; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States