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Summer Institute for Public Health Practice 2008
Management: Effective Supervision |
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“I can apply everything I learned on a daily basis! I have continual challenges in my job regarding policy and moving staff and community partners through difficult change.”
—participant, 2007
Management: Effective Supervision explores legal issues, policy-making skills, change management, and competencies for managers and leaders to mobilize public health organizations. This course is relevant for all arenas in public health, including nursing, policy, epidemiology, emergency preparedness, health education, environmental health and others. Topics include effectiveness of supervision, models of collaborative negotiations in supervising union-represented employees, and legal aspects of the employer/employee relationship.
Jeremy Sappington, Patricia Kuszler
Objectives
- Define and discuss issues related to self, role and agenda that determine effectiveness of personnel supervision.
- Define and discuss the model of collaborative negotiations and its use in supervising employees who are represented by unions.
- Describe and discuss legal issues associated with supervising employees.
- List 3-5 concepts of effective supervision that could influence responses to global climate change, new built environments, and communicable disease issues and describe the possible nature of those effects.