ENTC 4017
Industrial Supervision
ENTC 4017
SYLLABUS
Instructor
Dr. Hugh Blanton
Room:
Phone:
email:
Office hrs:
Website:
222-A
439-4177
blanton@etsu.edu
TR—3:00 pm--4:00 pm
http://faculty.etsu.edu/blanton
Students
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Name
Major
COREQUISITE:
ENTC 3030--Technical Writing
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
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Behavoral studies related to
supervision.
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Supervisory functions, motivation,
interviewing, and personal
advancement.
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Lecture, case studies, discussions,
and reports.
Objectives:
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The course is intended to introduce the student to basic
supervision concepts, theories, and applications.
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Supervision will be explored in terms of the functions that
supervisors perform.
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An overview of supervisor skills, concerns, and
challenges, especially people skills and the utilization of
people in organizations is contained in the course.
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This overview will aid the student in appreciating the
problems and issues that arise in modern organizations.
Textbook
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Samuel Certo, Supervision: Concepts
and Skill Building. Fourth Edition. Irwin
McGraw-Hill: 2002.
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Power point presentations will be
available on the web site
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http://faculty.etsu.edu/blanton.
• Look in the hyperlink:
• ENTC_4017.
Grades
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There will be three exams given during the semester
including the final exam.
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Exams are based on lectures and textbook materials.
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Four mini-essays and a more extensive project paper will
meet the writing intensive portion of the course.
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If a student misses an exam due to illness or valid
excuse, he/she may make up the exam during the last
class.
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There will be no make up exams prior to that time.
Grade guidelines—Mini Essays
Subjective
A (100-93)
Outstanding
Exceptional in form and content
A-, B+,B
(92-84)
Above
average
Fine work, few minor flaws: interesting, insightful,
logical, well designed, well developed, well
organized, clear and attractive style, grammatically
correct, no major flaws
B-, C+, C,
C(83-70)
Average
Generally correct, shows understanding of course
concepts, reasonably competent but with some
important flaws, a mixture of strengths and
weaknesses
D
(70-60)
Below
average
Seriously deficient in content, form, or style
Failing
Incoherent ideas, very disorganized presentation,
many grammatical problems, other excessive flaws
F
Major Errors in Writing
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No thesis
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Found in the introduction
Defines the essence of the paper
Paragraph—Too many main ideas and too long.
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Each paragraph should have one main topic and should be
two or more sentences.
Comma usage—Comma used where shouldn’t be and
not used where should be.
Sentence doesn’t make sense.
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Sentence fragment—Subject with no verb.
Citations & References
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Citations not used.
Citations not used correctly.
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The grade for the course will be based upon
the three exams and the written assignments:
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Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3 (Final Exam)
1-1 page Term Paper Proposal 5%
4-2 page Mini Essays
1-7 to12 page Term Paper
10%
10%
10%
40%
25%
100%
Course Grade:
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
DF
94%-100%
90%-93%
87%-89%
84%-86%
80%-83%
77%-79%
74%-76%
70%-73%
67%-69%
64%-66%
60%-63%
below 60%
ENTC 4017
Course Content
Week 1:
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Syllabus and Introduction
• Assignment:
Read Chapters 1 & 2.
Week 2:
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Assignment:
Mini-Essay 1. Due 1/23/03
• Mini-Essay 1:
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List the organization and department in which you work.
Interview your supervisor regarding:
What he/she does in the course of a typical day.
How much of their time is spent working with people.
What is the hardest part of their job.
What is the most satisfying part of their job.
What management functions (planning, organizing,
staffing, directing (leading), controlling) do they perform.
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You should use third person passive when possible.
There should be at least two citations in your report.
Read Chapters 3 & 4.
Week 3
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Assignment:
Read Chapters 5 & 6
Week 4
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Review for Test 1: Chapters 1-6
Week 5 (February 6, 2003)
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Test 1: Chapters 1-6
• Assignment:
• Read Chapters 7 & 8.
Week 6
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One page proposal
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Assignment:
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Read Chapters 9 & 10 & Mini-Essay 2. Due 2/20/03
Mini-Essay 2: The American with Disabilities Act prohibits
discrimination against disabled employees in the private
sector and encourages reasonable accommodation for
them.
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Conduct an Internet/library search on the legislation and find
one recent court case ruling in favor of the plaintiff and one
recent course case ruling against the plaintiff and discuss the
merits of each.
Week 7
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Assignment:
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Read Chapters 11 & 12
One page proposal outlining your term paper.
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February 27, 2003
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Term Paper
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The term paper must be at least seven pages and no more than 15 pages
in length not including the title page, reference pages, and appendices.
The paper will be typewritten and double spaced. Topics for Term Paper
will be:
• Discrimination in the workplace.
• Total Quality Management.
• The Effects of Improving Productivity in the workplace.
• Diversity in the workplace.
• The Effects of Federal and State laws.
• Leadership and vision.
Each paper must have
• an introduction (1-3 pages) discussing the topic to be covered.
• The introduction will be followed by research concerning the current
thinking on the topic (3-5 pages) and
• your conclusions (2-4) pages.
Week 8
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Review for Test 1: Chapters 7-12
Week 9 March, 6 2003
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Test 2—Chapters 7-12
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Assignment:
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Read Chapters 13 & 14
Mini-Essay 3. Due 3/13/03
• Mini-Essay 3--Use yourself as an example and lists
those methods that successfully motivate you and those
methods that do not.
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Don’t forget to compare those factors that motivate you
with the theory presented in Certo.
Don’t forger your citations.
Week 10
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Assignment:
• Read Chapters 15 & 16
Spring Break—March 20, 2003
Week 11
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Assignment:
• Read Chapters 17 & 18
Week 12
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Assignment:
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Read Chapters 19 & 20
Mini-Essay 4. Due 4/10/03
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Mini-Essay 4: There is a growing interest in both the
public and private sectors to increase productivity.
Select a local industry--perhaps the industry for which
you work--and describe productivity improvement that
can be made.
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Don’t forget to compare those factors that motivate you
with the theory presented in Certo.
Don’t forger your citations.
Week 13
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Review for Test 3
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Assignment:
• Complete term paper.
• Term paper due on April, 17, 2003.
Week 14—April 17, 2003
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Test 3
Term Paper Due.
Paper Revisions Due
ENTC 4017
Revision Option
Method
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Revision means literally "seeing again," developing a new
perspective on the writing task.
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Just correcting the original work based on my comments or
your own observations will not be accepted as revision;
instead, you'll have to rewrite the document significantly.
Some revisions can raise your grade
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all revisions should help you learn more about writing well.
I’m happy to help you to revise:
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I highly recommend that you check in with me at some point
before you submit a revised assignment so I can help you
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focus on the most important areas,
brainstorm options,
assess your progress, and
otherwise assist you to improve.
Grading
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Revisions of two assignments can be
submitted for re-grading.
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No risk is involved (you cannot receive a lower grade
than the one originally assigned)
but neither do you have a guarantee of earning a
higher grade for your effort.
• In order to insure that you work hard on your initial
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assignments, revision grades will not be more than one
full grade higher than the original grade.
Revision grades replace the original grades rather than
being averaged with them.
Materials
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The original document containing my
comments and grade must accompany
the revision,
along with old and new background
material.
Timing
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You may submit a revised assignment at any time during
the semester;
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all revisions are due one week before the last day of class—
no exceptions.
Students often find it useful to delay revision until later in the
semester for the following reasons:
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They can apply the additional course material to improve their
writing
They learn by practicing their writing skills in other
assignments
They gain perspective by putting the work away for a time
They have more assignments to consider for revision, so they
can choose the ones that will count most toward their course
grade
Questions?