Supervisory Management articles from January 1994

Supervisory Management archives from January 1994

Are you drowning in details? (quiz on perfectionism)
January 1, 1994... Being a slave to perfectionism can be an obstacle to promotion. You can find yourself drowning in details while your productivity lags. To find out whether perfectionism is making it difficult for you to manage, take the following quiz. 1....

The legal danger with employee involvement.
January 1, 1994... Suppose your company issues a new attendance policy and everyone's unhappy with it. A number of the workers sign a petition letting management know of their displeasure, and management comes back with an offer: Why not form employee "action...

GE's "work-outs" change role of management. (General Electric Co.)
January 1, 1994... Today's managers could learn quite a bit from General Electric. For the past four years, GE has been increasing production across the board, as well as empowering its employees, with a program called Work-Out. Work-Outs are problem solving...

Seven deadly sins of performance appraisals. (Skill Building Exercise)
January 1, 1994... Everybody knows performance appraisals are essential to good performance and good management-employee relations--in theory. In reality, they are about as popular as castor oil, among managers and employees alike. Why? Because too often the...

Beyond sexual harassment.
January 1, 1994... So much attention has been focused on sexual harassment over the past several months that it's easy to forget this is just one of the ways people can be harassed at work. Workers can be unwitting targets of harassment for a variety of reasons...