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SUPERVISION INTERVIEW RESOURCES

• The First-Time Manager, Loren Belker, 2005
  This guide covers leadership, motivation, discipline, and other tricks of the trade that are required of anyone in a supervisory position. 
• Becoming a Successful Manager : How to Make a Smooth Transition from Managing Yourself to Managing Others, Jack Grossman, 2001
  Advice and exercises to make a smooth transition to supervisor. Start off right and avoid the pitfalls.
• Skills for New Managers, Morey Stettner, 2000
  Specific answers for hiring new employees; delegating work efficiently; dealing with stress; communicating effectively with your employees; how to master mentoring, leadership, and coaching styles.  Includes bulleted lists, checklists and definition of terms.
• What Makes A Great Manager? 
  Management and supervision guide with tips, answers and free resources.  A good resource for situational questions.

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1. As a manager with a number of subordinate supervisors, one of the employees consistently bypasses your subordinate supervisor and brings issues and problems directly to you. What action, if any, will you take?
2. You’ve just appointed a new supervisor for your best section. The section has nearly perfect attendance and consistently produces the most work with the fewest mistakes. The supervisor states that work takes priority and that only essential conversations should take place. What will you do?
3. A subordinate supervisor directs an employee to correct a potentially unsafe action. The employee refuses. What is your direction to the supervisor?
4. One of your subordinate supervisors without talking to you has taken a personnel issue to your supervisor. What will you do?
5. You've been told by a number of staff that one of your subordinate supervisors is documenting everything that you do.  What actions, if any, will you take?
6. You've initiated a major change in policy in your organization. One of your subordinate supervisors is resisting the change to the point where their resistance may influence other employees. What actions, if any, will you take?

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