Open AccessSupervision - What's in a word?
Author(s) -
Elisha Smith
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
south african journal of physiotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.166
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2410-8219
pISSN - 0379-6175
DOI - 10.4102/sajp.v52i4.622
Subject(s) - supervisor , quality (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , psychology , diversity (politics) , diversity training , public relations , medical education , medicine , competence (human resources) , social psychology , computer science , management , political science , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , law , economics
The importance of supervision is highlighted and reference is made to the fact that a negative attitude, lack of training and lack of experience can seriously hamper the successful implementation of supervision. Supervision can be very challenging and stimulating and can improve to be a tremendous value to the manager, worker, patient, student and the organisation. There is much more to supervision than merely “overseeing” and it includes multiple aspects of personnel management which when executed well, can lead to quality services being rendered and job satisfaction. The diversity of roles required from the supervisor necessitates specific training in the skills and competencies.