Modern Supervision

Course Description:

This course is especially designed to help you gain quickly and easily, the essential knowledge of supervision and to review and evaluate your comprehension of the material. The emphasis of this course is on the key role that the supervisor plays in today’s organizations. In most organizations, it is recognized that the supervisory job is demanding and exacting. Success or failure of the entire organization is often conditioned by the competency at the supervisory level. This course attempts to present and discuss those things that are essential to being a successful supervisor. It is designed to meet the special needs of a person aspiring to a supervisory job, and the practicing supervisor. The course is applicable to all types of supervisory jobs whether in manufacturing, service, or not-for-profit organizations. For the potential supervisor the course affords a concise but complete presentation and acquaintance with the many problems that will be confronted. For the experience supervisor, the material provides an overall review, a broadening of supervisory horizons, and a kindling of new and fresh thinking in the supervisory area.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify where supervisors come from
• Describe the role and duties of a supervisor
• Detail and list the supervisor’s authority and responsibility
• Explain and give examples of the factors limiting supervision
• Ascertain why supervisors fail