Role-Playing for Supervisors
The Commonwealth and International Library: Supervisory Studies
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1969
- Author: J. Maxwell Towers
- Editor: E. L. J. Thorne
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 0 6 7 1 2 - 4
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 7 2 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 9 7 0 - 6
Role-Playing for Supervisors explores how role-playing can help potential supervisors and supervisors already in post to get the feel of applying the principles of supervision in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRole-Playing for Supervisors explores how role-playing can help potential supervisors and supervisors already in post to get the feel of applying the principles of supervision in practice. Exercises designed to develop objective attitudes and reactions to a range of industrial problems and to grapple with these problems by assuming the roles of the real-life participants are included.
This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins by explaining the rationale for role-playing. The next chapter is an exercise that reflects the problems faced by a supervisor of a crane manufacturing company. The following chapters present exercises that deal with industrial misconduct, a lightning strike, productivity bargaining, and restrictive practices and how to remove them. Another exercise focuses on the growth and decay of a small shipyard and the management's attempts to achieve recovery through diversification. The remaining exercises address the subject of anti-management activity; whether an apprentice who participated in a sit-down demonstration outside the factory is a revolutionary, and how to deal with him accordingly; and racialism in industry.
This monograph will be a valuable resource for supervisors and managers, employees, and company training officers.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Why Role-playing
Chapter 2. Planned Experience
Exercise 1. "Boss for a Day"
Chapter 3. Industrial Misconduct
Exercise 2. "I'd Sooner be Sacked"
Chapter 4. Wild-cat Strike
Exercise 3. "How Synthetic was Bill Brix"
Chapter 5. Company Growth, Decay, and Diversification
Exercise 4. "Andy and the Entrepreneurs"
Chapter 6. Productivity Bargaining
Exercise 5. "Cundle's get a Crewcutt"
Chapter 7. Restrictive Practices
Exercise 6. "Kangaroo Court"
Chapter 8. The Crypto-communist
Exercise 7. "The Thoughts of Red Roger"
Chapter 9. Revolt in the Technical College
Exercise 8. "Anti-establishment Apprentice"
Chapter 10. Racialism in Industry
Exercise 9. "Land of Promise"
Chapter 11. Self-knowledge and the Role-player
General Appendix Chapter Reference to Relevant Industrial Legislation—Existing and Pending
Index
- No. of pages: 308
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1969
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Hardback ISBN: 9780080067124
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483127286
- eBook ISBN: 9781483159706