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Professional Report
What Supervision is and Why it is Important?
Supervision is when one or a group of people are placed in charge of a team / organization. The basic idea is to have someone who is knowledgeable enough to work with the different employees by: ensuring that they are following the various policies and procedures of the company. At the same time, they are helping to motivate and deal with issues that could have an impact on productivity. (McNamara)
This is important, because without supervision a company will have no effective leadership for making certain that everyone is meeting their different objectives. This makes it difficult for a business to engage in a number of activities including: organizing everyone into various teams, changing with transformations in the markets, hiring / training new employees, setting different performance standards and ensuring that everyone is following the policies / procedures. As a result, effective supervision will help to set the tone and atmosphere for a corporation. Once...
Over the course of time, this will help a business to be able have everyone working together in reaching their long-term objectives. (McNamara)
Present a recent real world situation that could have used the concepts from this course to benefit their situation. (Include a very brief description of the company / organization as well as their situation and your suggestions applying course concepts).
A good example of a company that could have used effective supervision was Enron. What happened was, the top management wanted to increase their overall bottom line as much as possible. The reason why is due to the fact that they wanted to take advantage of new opportunities in many energy markets that were deregulating. As a result, management encouraged executives to take tremendous amounts of risks that were not financially prudent. Instead of questioning what was happening, most employees continued to blindly follow the…
Bibliography
McNamara, Carter. Free Basic Guide to Leadership and Supervision. Management Help, 2011. Web. 20 Jul. 2011. <http://managementhelp.org/management/guidebook.htm>
Pierce, Rick. 10 Keys to Effective Supervision. Business Experts Webinars, 2011. Web. 20 Jul. 2011 <http://www.businessexpertwebinars.com/content/view/592/29/>
Seabury, Christopher. Enron. Investopedia, 2009. Web. 20 Jul. 2011. <http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/09/enron-collapse.asp#axzz1SmgTf3XV>
MLA Format. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
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