Supervisory Management articles from June 1989

Supervisory Management archives from June 1989

The 1990s: From Managing to Lending
June 1, 1989... The 1990s: From Managing to Leading Managers in America today share similar dilemmas. The labor force is changing, organizational structures are different, social and economic forces are new and constantly evolving, and the marketplace is now...

Taking Advantage of Training Opportunities
June 1, 1989... Taking Advantage of Training Opportunities If your organization is facing cut-backs, if you have multiple skills and have been cross-trained, you are more likely to be retained. If improved job performance or career advancement is on the...

Getting There by Goal Setting
June 1, 1989... Getting There by Goal Setting Studies of goal setting have shown again and again that it's frustrating and even self-defeating for managers to set unrealistically high goals. Managers who set goals that are too high and then fall short of them...

Employee Motivation: The Key to Training
June 1, 1989... Employee Motivation: The Key to Training The Effort-Net Return model of motivation provides good insight for making sure a trainee is fully motivated to learn. The integration and comprehensiveness of ENR are unique and provide a depth of...

Functional Illiteracy: It's Your Problem, Too
June 1, 1989... Functional Illiteracy: It's Your Problem, Too In the battle to find and help functional illiterates in the workplace, you, as a supervisor, are in the front lines. In recent months, there has been much publicity about adult illiteracy. The...

Training the Foreign-Born Worker: Maximizing Classroom Participation
June 1, 1989... Training the Foreign-Born Worker: Maximizing Classroom Participation Henry loves his work as a manager/trainer at a large electronics firm in California. More than anything else, he particularly enjoys generating and leading discussions in the...

The Principles of Retraining
June 1, 1989... The Principles of Retraining Training isn't something you only do with brand new employees. Every time there's a change within your department, you need to consider its implications on the work done by those who report to you. Retraining may be...

The Supervisor as Trainer: 'Shoot Where the Rabbit Will Be'
June 1, 1989... The Supervisor as Trainer: "Shoot Where The Rabbit Will Be" "One of a supervisor's responsibilities," says Dr. Richard E. Wise, "is to shoot where the rabbit will be, not just where he is. And that requires better and better aim as the rabbit...

Supervising the Plateaued Worker
June 1, 1989... Supervising the Plateaued Worker One change in today's business world that will probably affect the supervisor as much, if not more, than any other is the increase in plateaued workers. The career plateau can be described how effective the...

A New Attitude for Supervisors
June 1, 1989... A New Attitudes for Supervisors Changes in corporate structure over the past several years have led many supervisors and middle managers to question their roles and responsibilities. To some of these people, the changes appear to be a death...