This new, essential text provides comprehensive and step-by-step guidance for supervisors tasked to investigate alleged employee misconduct. Emphasis is placed on conducting fair and efficient inquiries; the discussion describes how to prepare for and conduct interviews, how to gather documents, analyze the evidence and how to write reports with recommendations. The text provides numerous examples taken from real life federal employment situations. In addition, the book includes sample forms for each step in the process. The text helps guide the reader so that only provable claims go forward to third parties and that the agency satisfies any obligation to take prompt and appropriate action. Specific topics include: authority to conduct an inquiry; constraints on managerial authority; the investigation and employee obligation to cooperate; interim actions; preparing for the inquiry and anticipating problems; questioning techniques with sample questions; disclosure issues; obtaining and preserving documents; analyzing the information; and writing the report and recommendations.

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