Supervisory management : principles and practice / David Evans.
By: Evans, David.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Cassell, c1992Edition: 3rd ed.Description: ix, 662 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0304325511 ; 0304322962 .Subject(s): Supervision of employees | Supervisors | Personnel managementDDC classification: 658.302Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.302 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00029192 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This major new edition of Cassell's biggest selling management textbook has been revised by David Evans to bring it completely up-to-date with current thinking and course development. Evans covers all the required elements of running a successful company with an engaged personnel and a well-structured structure of authority. Evans emphasizes the need for clarity and simplicity in determining business priorities and stresses the importance for a company to learn and achieve objectives.
Includes index.
Unit I: Introduction to supervision -- Organizations -- The structure of the organization -- Management theory -- The supervisor and the organization -- Unit II: The functions of the supervisor -- The basic functions of managers -- The supervisor and the functions of management: Creating, planning and organizing -- The supervisor and the functions of management: Motivating, communicating and controlling -- The supervisor as a leader -- Planning, introducing and managing change -- Unit III: The supervisor and the personnel function -- Introduction to the personnel function -- Manpower planning -- The recruitment and selection process -- The induction process -- Performance appraisal -- Training -- Parting company with the employee -- The rate of change in the work force - Labour turnover -- Wages and salary structures -- Looking after the work force -- The supervisor and the personnel function -- Unit IV: The supervisor and the law -- The background to the law -- Contracts of employment -- Contract-based legislation -- Health and safety legislation -- Codes of industrial practice -- Unit V: The supervisor and industrial relations -- The birth and growth of trade unions -- The structure of the unions -- Collective bargaining -- Worker participation -- Unit VI: Writing a project report -- The purpose of projects and reports -- Choosing a project -- Tackling the project.