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Describe special concerns when an entry-level employee is promoted to a supervisory
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position. - ✔✔New supervisors often face challenges, such as confusion between working
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and leading, knowing when to assist with tasks, and interacting in the new relationship.
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Supervisors must develop trust and respect with team members. This involves being an
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effective communicator and being consistently honest and fair. Experience helps
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supervisors better meet their responsibilities. || || || ||
Explain basic employee motivation strategies. - ✔✔Motivation is an inner drive, but
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supervisors can create conditions that employees typically find motivating, including
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making a good first impression and maintaining a professional workforce. They also
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support a culturally diverse workplace.
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Supervisors should direct the work of their employees as they would like to be supervised.
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They prepare for success by providing a clear vision and making plans. They help
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employees succeed as they develop ongoing training opportunities and review employees'
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work. They know that appreciation is a powerful motivator.
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Supervisors serve as role models. Their own behavior and attitude set the tone for the
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department. They communicate a consistent message about what employees should do and
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how.
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Strategies to encourage a motivational environment include acknowledging employees and
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expressing appreciation. Sharing information and involving employees in problem solving
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are also important. Supervisors demonstrate an interest in employees as individuals.
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Employees who are involved in planning and decision making know they are valuable.
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Describe procedures for building and maintaining effective teams. - ✔✔The best way to
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build teams is to maintain an environment in which employees can work together
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effectively. Good team leaders use several tactics including the use of interpersonal skills,
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allowing team members to make decisions, and creating an environment to reduce turnover
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and use available resources.
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Effective teams know their establishment's mission and their role. They develop carefully
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planned goals focused on team functioning, information flow, specific assignments, and
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necessary resources. ||
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Teams cannot be effective if supervisors use a poor management style, high turnover exists,
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or teams fail to focus on goals. If simple teams are not performing, more training may be
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required. When a relay team has problems, employees should be reminded that their work
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affects the entire team. If problem-solving teams are ineffective, corrective procedures are
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used and conflicts resolved.
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simple teams - ✔✔Members have similar works
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Relay teams - ✔✔ms interact with each other, as when servers take orders and cooks
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produce them. ||
Problem-Solving Teams - ✔✔work together to resolve problems. || || || || || || ||
Discuss the development and management of employee recognition and incentive
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programs. - ✔✔Employee recognition programs provide a way to publicly express
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appreciation. Incentive programs encourage employees to meet specific goals by offering a
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reward. Planners should determine what motivates their employees and what resources are
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available to reward the employees. They must also determine what behaviors or
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accomplishments should be recognized, determine the specific rewards for specific behavior || || || || || || || || || ||
and results, and communicate the recognition and incentive program information to the
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employees.
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Those planning recognition and incentive programs must also determine time frames and
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program rules and results. They must also decide how those who achieve program goals
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should be determined, and how the effectiveness of the program will be evaluated. It is also
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important to continuously implement other recognition and incentive programs based on
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the evaluation results. Examples of incentive programs include awards for service, sales and
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productivity, customer satisfaction, safety, and longevity. || || || || ||
work team - ✔✔A group of employees who cooperate on the job to attain objectives and
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who hold themselves accountable for their success.
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Benefits - ✔✔Compensation other than wages or salary, which may include meals,
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uniforms, educational assistance, health care, vacation, sick leave
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Career ladder - ✔✔A plan that explains how job advancement may occur.
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Compensation - ✔✔All financial and no financial rewards given to employees for there || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
work
continuous quality improvement (CQI) - ✔✔A management philosophy that emphasizes
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that most work processes can be improved.
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Cross cultural team - ✔✔A special type of problem-solving team, composed of members
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representing different departments who work together || || || || ||
Diversity - ✔✔The concept that people are unique with individual differences and
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variations in race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age and physical abilities,
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Employee Incentive Program - ✔✔A program designed to encourage employees to meet
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specified goals by offering some kind of reward.
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employee recognition program - ✔✔A program that provides a way for establishments to
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publicly express appreciation for employees, or to acknowledge and celebrate them as
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individuals.
entry-level employee - ✔✔An employee who works in a position that requires little
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experience and has no supervisory duties. || || || || ||
fast-track employee - ✔✔An employee who meets work requirements in his or her present
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position and participates in a professional development program that allows the employee
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to advance quickly in the operation.
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harassment - ✔✔Unwanted and annoying actions by one or more persons, including
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threats, or demands || ||
income statement - ✔✔A summary of an operations profitability that shows revenues
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generated, expenses incurred, and profits or losses realized during a specific accounting
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period
Maslow's hierarchy of needs - ✔✔A theory that people have basic needs that typically arise
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in a certain order; when one need is fulfilled to the extent desired by the person, her or she
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is achieved to fulfill the next need
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Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid levels - ✔✔1st - physiological
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2nd - Safety || ||
3rd - social
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4th- esteem || ||
5th - self actualization
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