Best Practice Manual for Supervisors
Ever since the beginning of time there have been leaders and there have been followers. As a leader one must posses’ skills of knowing how to motivate others to accomplish a task. As a follower one must follow what the leader is telling him or her to do. In this particular manual case one will see that supervisors are important leaders in an organization with responsibilities greater than what man can imagine. In this manual one will be able to grasp the best practices for supervisor which include, demonstrating communication skills, determining effective orientation training methods, improving productivity for teams, conducting performance appraisals, resolving conflict, and improving employee relations.
Demonstrating communication skills is a very important role of a supervisor. Communication is when one person transmits ideas or feelings to another person or group of people, its effectiveness is measured by the similarity between the idea transmitted and the idea received. In addition demonstrating communication skills is very essential to a supervisor who is supervising a group of individuals. The reason for that is “supervisors must give direction to the people who work for them. Supervisors who fail to give clear guidance often find that employees perform their job poorly because they do not understand what is expected of them.”(Mgt310. Chp3 pg39) For a supervisor giving direction gives the supervisor and the employee a line of communication to where each of them know what each of them expects from one another. For example, if your supervisor gives one a direct order to set up the lines to be run during one’s shift. When the supervisor communicates a direct authority to the employees he or she hears, underst ...