Supervisors work closely with employees to give their subordinates guidance and to help steer their performance. Good employee supervisors need a combination of hard (technical) and soft (people) ...

Although they are most likely to move up, your most technically skilled employees don't always make the best supervisors. Newly promoted supervisors often need assistance to develop managerial skills ...

Too often, companies promote great individual contributors to supervisory roles because of outstanding job performance, skills, or tenure with the organization. These ...

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Note: In the “Ask the Chair” series, the author of How to Chair a Department answers your questions about departmental leadership. Send your queries via Twitter, Facebook, or email. Read last month’s ...

Who says there’s no free lunch? I’m buying fish tacos at Senor Fish for the first reader who can tell me the last time a Los Angeles County supervisor was run out of office. (Hint: A successful ...

There’s an unofficial rule of safety management that goes like this: a safety program will only be as strong as the least-effective shift supervisor. Every rule has its exceptions, but it’s ...

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.