Your actions affect employee morale, turnover, and productivity. This module is designed to give you information useful for managing the employee relations climate in your area of responsibility. Refer to it whenever you foresee especially challenging employee relations situations. Organizational self-assessment is only one factor in the improvement equation. Study after study shows that effective managers and supervisors continually assess and seek to improve their own knowledge, skills, and behavior.
Leadership is an ageless topic that has been studied from many different viewpoints.
The elements produced by leadership are movement and change. Throughout the ages, individuals seen as leaders have produced movement and change, sometimes for the better and sometimes not. They have done so in a variety of ways, though their actions always seem to boil down to establishing where a group of people should go, getting the group lined up in that direction and committed to movement, and then energizing the group to overcome the inevitable obstacles it will encounter along the way. Use this as an opportunity to hone your skills and make optimal use of your responsibility and authority. As a manager or supervisor, your workdays are filled with challenging problems and decisions.