Strategic support for managers by management supervision

Autor: Seija Ollila
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Leadership in Health Services. 21:16-27
ISSN: 1751-1879
DOI: 10.1108/17511870810845879
Popis: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to strengthen the role of management supervision in the competence of management and its support. Competence in organizations consists of the human, social and structural dimensions. It involves controlling explicit and tacit knowledge, know‐how and experiences. Competence‐based management requires the ability to manage, as well as the skills to consider, build, evaluate, support and leverage competence in an organization. The competence and well‐being of a manager needs to be supported.Design/methodology/approach – The study represented in this article is a qualitative comparison and the new knowledge of experienced material has been evaluated. It is done during two periods and based on interviews with public and private managers in social and health services (n=22 and n=12). The data have been analysed through the use of content analysis inspired by the theory and the data.Findings – Management supervision includes dialogue and reflective thinking as features of co...
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