44.312 Security Management

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Effective Supervision (continued)

  • commitment to supervisor of two types: identify with supervisor, and -- perhaps -- internalization of the supervisor's values.
  • Building trust
    • comes slowly and goes quickly.
    • leads to cooperation, reduces conflict, and promotes adaptive organization -- you'll work together more effectively if you trust each other.
    • requires objective credibility -- can rely on the person -- and benevolence -- extent to which supervisor is concerned with employee's well-being
    • behaviors that foster trust (Affholderbach, 1998)
      • keep promises
      • always tell truth
      • be quick to apologize
      • be fair to everyone
      • cooperate
      • strive to understand how others feel
      • when you make decision, seek input from affected employee
  • Honesty
    • lack of honesty can cause ripple effect
  • Self-respect
    • leads to self-esteem and confidence
      • global self-esteem: extent to which people feel they are capable, based on prior experience
      • task-based: confidence you can do tasks you handle frequently.Gives more job satisfaction
    • manager must recognize how to increase employee's self esteem: reaffirm employee's worth to organization, empower and trust them, give them meaningful tasks, challenge their abilities, make sure they complete them successfully (Newstrom, Gardner, and Peirce (1999).
    • never demean the person.

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