Supervisor 4.0: Essential Points

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This book will walk you through the process of becoming a Supervisor 4.0. The term 'Supervisor 4.0' is used to associate the role of a supervisor with the present period referred to as Industry 4.0 and beyond.

If you work in a workplace, within a large or small corporation, where resources are used or changed from one form to another, or to produce certain types of 'medium' or 'final' products or services, this easy-to-read book is for you. Moreover, if you manage a small-to-medium-sized business (aka SMB), such as a home-based business, you are essentially a supervisor, and this practical book is relevant for you. This book is also perfect for those of you who want to learn practical management skills.

Its contents begin by advising you on how to view your workplace properly*. This perspective is critical since a misperception of it could lead to workplace mismanagement.

On a solid basis, by looking at your workplace, you can precisely decide a work target (T). Realizing T inevitably requires a concerted effort of Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling. We shall call this collaborative effort as 5G. To successfully achieve T via 5G, Productivity (P) should be included without sacrificing Job Satisfaction (S) and Quality (Q), especially in the face of globalization and intense competition. Coupled with 3 support skills: Technical, Diagnostic, and Communication Skills (3s), a smooth process of achieving Target (T) through the multiplication of efforts (5G) plus high Quality (Q), Productivity (P), and Job Satisfaction (S) can finally be secured. Thus, the formula for becoming Supervisor 4.0 can be presented as follows: SPV 4.0 = [(T x 5G) + QPS]^3s.

This how-to-guide book equips you with the essential supervisory tools to put each variable of the Supervisor 4.0 Formula into action in the field. You simply need to use them and remember that 'practice makes perfect', suggesting that you should keep practising with those tools to become skilled. This is a never-ending effort for improvement.

In addition, there is a Control Mechanism case study that you can replicate and apply in your workplace. Last but not least, as part of ongoing supervisory performance enhancement, the book contains Supervisory 'Medical' Checkup 4.0, which can be employed as a periodic checkup tool to assess your supervisory health.

*System Approach

Referring to the book, one or more work fields can be viewed as a system. The work field specifies the nature of work, while the workplace specifies a physical place of work. The nature of work is a process whereby individuals, or groups of individuals, combine necessary resources to achieve the desired objective according to an agreed set of procedures. Each work field can consist of one or more work processes. These work fields, in the system, manage input from another system(s) and meet the demand(s) of the next system(s).

 ‘To meet the demand(s) of the next system(s)’ is the (expected) output of the system and, indeed, the reason for its existence. To realise the output, the system requires — and manages through work fields (and work processes) — input from another system(s). Both the input from another system(s) and the demand(s) of the next system(s) represent the environment of the system.

Whatever the aim of examining (and analysing) phenomena; a system approach begins by questioning what the (expected) output of a system is, why a system exists or what the reason for its existence is. After comprehending the system's output, the next phase is to define (design) the system's boundary and its interaction with the environment. In line with the aforementioned aim, the system is then to be broken down into smaller, more understandable subsystems, including their interconnections, to comprehend and appreciate the role of each subsystem in realising the system's output while simultaneously comprehending the overall system mechanism. Each subsystem is of importance to the whole to gain a holistic perspective. The Plan–Do–Check–Action (PDCA) circle is then used to assess the system — which includes system modifications — in order to accomplish the aim while, at the same time, still processing to realise the system's expected output. A change in any work field/process and its interconnections affects the whole system, directly or indirectly.

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