Examined relational consequences of supervisors' and supervisees' disagreements about supervisee's counseling sophistication, using Stoltenberg's developmental model of counselor supervision. Supervisors perceived themselves as varying their behavior with supervisees of different developmental levels, though supervisees did not see this.…

Male and female managers responded to a vignette about a subordinate who performed poorly. The corrective actions proposed by female leaders were more affected by the likableness and sex of the subordinate than were those of the male leaders. The implications of these findings for management training and practice are discussed. (KH)

Presents and discusses a conceptual model of the concerns of prerelease offenders and community supervisors. The conceptualization suggests that "perceptual differences" of the concerns of prerelease status is one alternative for examining the supervisorial relationship. Attempts to identify and confront the different expectations of supervisors…

Presents the social facilitation paradigm as a useful model for predicting positive and negative effects of supervision observation on the performance of counselors. Describes some recent studies that have attempted to test this paradigm in actual counseling studies and offers some suggestions for future research. (LLL)

Reports responses of 693 teachers to the Survey of Supervisory Practices in four rural, central Pennsylvania school districts. Finds six statistically significant factors that are related to teachers' perceptions of the helpfulness of supervison in the improvement of their classroom instruction. (NEC)

Reviews the group supervision literature in counselor training from 1960 to 1983. Included only those articles pertaining to supervised groups of counselor trainees participating in individual counseling practica. Descriptions of group supervision include elements of case presentation, didactic information, and interpersonal process. (Author/BH)

Examined influences on perceptions of supervision relationships in 86 counselors and 92 supervisors. Semester end ratings showed that supervisees discriminated between relationship quality, which was affected by gender matching, supervisor gender, and supervisor behavior, and supervisor competence, which was affected only by supervisor behavior.…

Focused on the relationship between supervisors' structuring (task orientation) and consideration (relationship orientation) behaviors and job satisfation, stress, and health problems of 78 rehabilitation workers. Higher job satisfaction and lower stress were related to high supervisor consideration. More health problems were reported when…

Surveyed 237 counselor trainees from across the country regarding changes in supervisee perceptions of supervisor behavior as counselors gain experience. Results were congruent with previous research suggesting supervisors do change their behavior to match the needs of supervisees; however, supervision differed across settings. (JAC)

This study investigated the relationship between supervisors' use of Bell and Daly's affinity-seeking strategies and their impact on employee satisfaction. Results indicated that 16 of the 25 affinity-seeking strategies were positively correlated with a subordinate's perception of supervisor credibility. Results also indicated that a supervisor's…

Clients' ratings measuring the extent to which they felt inhibited by audio-recorded sessions (for supervisory purposes) were correlated with their scores on each scale of the Adjective Check List. Inhibition was positively related to scores in Self-Control, Endurance, Order, Abasement, Deference, and Counseling Readiness. (Author)

Training of supervisory personnel in libraries is a relatively new practice. The first year of an in-house program is described with suggestions for increasing its effectiveness. (10 references) (DH)

Describes an inner city New York City school that has achieved some success in improving urban education. (JF)

Techniques of supervision must change to provide more effective leadership and reduce present duplication of effort. Supervisors should be specialists in program areas. Group meetings can be used to efficiently handle routine activities. Leaders should devote more time to planning, innovating, coordinating and improving programs and less time to…