BSBWOR501 Element 1

Question 1

Leadership, management and Supervision

Describe the role of Supervision?

Answer 1

Within this context, supervision is the role assumed by leaders and managers to ensure that actions are undertaken to achieve the desired ends.

Question 2

Name some changes to the operational environment that leaders have to work with today?

Answer 2

• Flatter, faster-moving, market-driven, cost-conscious, complex organizational environments
• More organizational ‘surface’ exposure to environment
• Increasingly decentralized and fragmented organization
• Increasingly decentralized and fragmented organization
• Increasing importance of ‘horizontal’ management relative to ‘vertical’ management to manage quality, service, and technological imperatives
• Increasing importance of ‘horizontal’ management relative to ‘vertical’ management to manage quality, service, and technological imperatives
• Unprecedented emphasis on people as organization’s most vital resource