Supervisory Management articles from March 1990

Supervisory Management archives from March 1990

Upward evaluations: what happens when staffers evaluate supervisors.
March 1, 1990... Upward Evaluations: What Happens When Staffers Evaluate Supervisors Generally performance reviews go one way: from the top down. But increasingly companies, anxious to create more effective management teams, are changing the direction of...

Layoff survivor sickness: a new challenge for supervisors.
March 1, 1990... Layoff Survivor Sickness: A New Challenge for Supervisors Today, more and more companies are looking at employees as costs to be reduced. The new "lean and mean" philosophy has been responsible for a number of layoffs. Survivors of these...

The benefits of reference checking.
March 1, 1990... The Benefits of Reference Checking What do these cases have in common? --An accountant with 15 years' impressive experience was offered a job as controller (after being interviewed by eight managers). Five years later an audit revealed...

Making the new technology work.
March 1, 1990... Making the New Technology Work Well-managed technology has the potential to transform the quality of our work lives. The key phrase is "well-managed." Whether new technology improves the quality of our work lives and enables us to have...

16 guidelines for effective discipline.
March 1, 1990... 16 Guidelines for Effective Discipline Following the 16 guidelines listed here will help you discipline in a manner that will change an employee's behavior for the better with a minimum of hard feelings between you and the worker. 1....