Supervisors Survival Kit or A Sociology of Globalization

Supervisor's Survival Kit

Author: Goodwin

Continuing the Elwood Chapman tradition, author Cliff Goodwin brings you The Supervisor’s Survival Kit, 10^th Edition. Updated throughout, this edition focuses on the essential techniques and skills needed to be an effective supervisor. It offers a unique approach—fostering supervisory skills through the use of role plays, case studies, games and exercises—and will help readers gain confidence in their leadership and supervisory roles. This book discusses how to make the transition to management, achieve productivity through people, build an effective team, and conduct essential supervisory tasks such as staffing, delegating, motivating and appraising employees. For supervisors, managers, and those wishing to develop strong leadership skills.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

Getting Into Supervision

1. Should You Be a Supervisor?

2. Making the Transition

3. The Supervisor’s Role and Responsibility in the Modern Organization

Human Relations and Communications: The Key to Successful Supervision

4. Achieving Productivity Through People

5. The Supervisor-Employee Relationship

6. Five Irreplaceable Foundations

7. Creating a Productive Working Climate

8. Quality Control and Continuous Improvement

9. The Effective Work Team

10. Communicating Privately

11. The Problem Employee

12. Staffing

13. Delegation

14. Use Your Knowledge Power

15. The Formal Appraisal

Managing Yourself

16. Learning to Concentrate

17. Establishing Goals and Planning

18. Setting Priorities

19. Make Decisive Decisions

Where Do I Go From Here?

20. Common Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

21. Converting Change into Opportunity

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A Sociology of Globalization

Author: Saskia Sassen

What does "globalization" mean? In her groundbreaking book, sociologist Saskia Sassen identifies two sets of processes that make up globalization. One is the set of global institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, global financial markets, the War Crime Tribunals, and the new global cosmopolitanism. There is a second set of processes that are frequently ignored by most social scientists and take place inside territories and occur on the national and local level. These can include state monetary and fiscal policy, networks of activists engaged in local struggles that have an explicit or implicit global agenda, and local and national politics that are unknowingly part of global networks containing similar localized efforts. Sassen's new book focuses on the importance of place, scale, and the meaning of the national to study globalization. By emphasizing the interplay between the global and the local, A Sociology of Globalization introduces readers to new forms and conditions such as global cities, transnational communities, and commodity chains that are increasingly common. Sassen's expanded approach to globalization offers new interpretive and analytic tools to understand the complex ideas of global interdependence.