This book offers a complete discussion of outsourcing, and it explains all of the basics. It also gives HR professionals and corporate executives practical tools with which to make an outsourcing decision, identify functional candidates for outsourcing, learn how to define requirements, draw up a request for proposal (RFP) and a request for information (RFI), assess the proposals and bidders, contract for services, expand vendor management expertise and manage outsourced functions successfully. The information in the book enables HR professionals to communicate with CEOs and CFOs at a high level when outsourcing is suggested and to understand the outsourcing jargon that complicates any such decision. The book covers offshoring as well as outsourcing. The sample contracts are available on CD-ROM.