The Foreman/Supervisor's Handbook
Published on 8. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 626 pages
978-1-4684-6601-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Foreman/Supervisor's Handbook is offered as a com prehensive and authoritative text which presents the kind of prac tical information the foreman or supervisor needs in order to be effective on the job. It completely revises and updates The Foreman's Handbook, a work which, through four previous edi tions, has become the standard text in its field. The term "foreman/supervisor" in the title of the new edition was decided upon by the editors despite a reluctance to tamper with a well established name, in recognition of a change in usage which has come about over the years. "Supervisor" is now more generally used in industry for the first level of management and is espe cially appropriate since the emerging role of women in super visory (and higher) positions has rendered the earlier, gender specific term less properly descriptive. Moreover, although the orientation of the book is to manufacturing operations, the prin ciples and techniques discussed have wide application in office operations, where the term "supervisor" is the designation uni versally used. To retain continuity with the previous editions, the compromise term "foreman/supervisor" was adopted. As in previous editions, each chapter is written by an authority in the ~ubject covered. Each, morever, stands on its own feet, i. e. , it can be read as a separate article, independent of preceding or succeeding chapters.
More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIV, 626 p.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
708 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-6601-0 (9781468466010)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-6599-0
Other editions
Additional editions
Carl Heyel | Harold W. Nance
The Foreman/Supervisor's Handbook
Book
12/1984
5th Edition
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€109.13
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Content
Section One-The Scope of the Foreman / Supervisor's Job.- 1. The Foreman/Supervisor's Total Job.- 2. The Foreman/Supervisor as a Leader.- Section Two-The Foreman / Supervisor's Know-How.- 3. Quality Assurance.- 4. Production Control: Planning and Scheduling.- 5. Time Study and Methods Improvement.- 6. Budgets and Cost Control.- 7. Maintenance and the Foreman.- 8. The Art of Communicating.- Section Three-Direct Personnel Responsibilities.- 9. The Foreman/Supervisor's Training Responsibilities.- 10. What to Do about Safety.- 11. Industrial Fatigue.- 12. The Emerged Role of Women in Industry.- 13. Anti-Discrimination Legislation.- Section Four-Cooperative Personnel Responsibilities.- 14. Wage Payment Plans and Incentives.- 15. Job Evaluation.- 16. Employee Performance Appraisal.- 17. The Tools of Industrial Psychology.- 18. The Foreman/Supervisor's Role in Labor Relations.- Section Five-Background Information.- 19. Concepts of Organization.- 20. Scientific Management and the Newer Management Sciences.- 21. Electronic Data Processing.- 22. Automation and Robotics.- 23. What the Foreman/Supervisor Should Know about Economics.- Section Six-Motivation-The "Payoff" of Effective Supervision.- 24. Insights Into Employee Motivation.- 25. Eleven Basic Principles of Work Simplification.- Section Seven-Executive Development for Foremen / Supervisors.- 26. Performance Assessment and Management by Objectives.- 27. Self-Quiz.- 28. Keys to Self-Quiz Questions.