BUS 220 - Supervision

Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: In this course you will discover how to become a successful and respected supervisor in the current contemporary workplace. Besides assessing your current supervisory traits, you will develop new skills addressing leadership, staff motivation, effective communication methods, problem-solving techniques, time management, multitasking and human relations. You will explore real-world situations and learn strategies to overcome a variety of challenges facing supervisors in a global and diverse workplace.

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.

Course Category: Occupational
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
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Course Competencies

Develop strategies for energizing a workforce through leadership, motivation, and communication.
Analyze the supervisor’s role in management process.
Illustrate current supervisory challenges in managing a global and diverse workforce.
Assess supervisory approaches to contemporary workplace issues.
Demonstrate essential business communication skills.
Determine effective methods for dealing with ethical dilemmas from a supervisory point of view.
Identify actions a supervisor can take to improve team performance.
Explore human resource management practices including interviewing and appraising employees.
Apply supervisory level problem solving and disciplinary techniques.