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A supervisors position used to be power based, its now |
relationship based
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A supervisors position used to be competitive, it is now
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cooperative
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Where employers once valued employees who could go it alone, they now look for
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team players
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Why have so many changes hit the workplace?
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shifts in the larger environment
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Four specific factors are changing the appearance and character of local government
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- demographic changes
- technological changes - changes in legal accountability - shifts in employees expectations and attitudes |
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The increasing diversity in the workforce requires the supervisor to ____
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familiarize themselves with different expectations, traditions. work styles and perspectives
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With the advent of new technology what has changed?
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computers now take the place of clerical work. These advances have enabled many types of employees to work outside the traditional office environment
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One of the most significant effects of legal mandates ___
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is that a greater percentage of the time a supervisor spends managing administrative processes that are not directly
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All of the fair labor acts including FLSA, ADA, and FMLA are intende to protect the rights of individual employees but they may also do what to the supervisors role
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reduce flexibility, add to their administrative burdens, and expose local governments to greater risks of litigation
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As a supervisor, what do you have to assume about litigation
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that nearly everyone of your actions and decisions can be litigated
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