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Importance of committed leadership from top to bottom Clear set of explained expectations for front-line management Involvement of all employees Effective communication... 

Management and Employee Cooperation. Before beginning to collect data, the cooperation of the managers involved, including the first line supervisor, and of the workers should be secured. Management needs to be informed so that they can be confident that surveillance activities will not upset production or lead to injuries. Workers need to know what the valuation means to them and how the results are to be reported. Everyone needs to know how the measurement is to be conducted so that the actual measurement causes as Htde dismption as possible. 

Security issues involving access controls are typically line management responsibilities. However, it is not unheard of to have the SSHO in charge of site access or other security-related matters. However, if the field team leader or site supervisors are in charge of access issues or other security matters, they should always strive for SSHO participation. The nature of a project may warrant assigning a member of the site security staff to the project team. Key duties of the security officer may include the following ... 

The evaluation involved detailed interviews with all but one of the mentees, and all the mentors, plus the mentees line managers. Inevitably, there was a significant variation in what had been achieved. Some of the relationships had moved firmly into the... 

Keeping interference with the relationship by third parties to an absolute minimum - for example, although line managers should be involved in the association, they do not have to receive a report every week. 

Involving the mentee s line manager but not allowing collusion between him or her and the mentor. 

Needs and objectives might emerge in various ways first, the mentee might have worked them out as a result of reflecting upon current performance secondly, the mentee s line manager or team leader might have been substantially involved in... 

First, make clear to both line managers and mentors where the boundaries of a mentoring relationship lie - i.e. mentors are not to interfere with work tasks given by the line manager they are not to discuss the line manager with the mentee in negative terms and they are not to get involved in conflicts between... 

The scope of the scheme - how many people are involved in running the scheme Who are these people and what roles do they occupy How many participants (mentors and mentees) will be involved in the scheme Who else will have an impact on the scheme (e.g. line managers and sponsors) ... 

Impress the importance of involving their line managers. 

Here, a pre- and post-appraisal, potentially involving the graduate s line manager, could be carried out to assess the extent to which these objectives have been achieved. 

Throughout this book we have emphasized that involving the line manager is vital - an aspect that is fortunately recognized... 

Regular involvement, walk-around inspections, informal spot checks, and specific topical discussions by line management and staff can be used to ensure that chemical reactivity hazard management systems and procedures are actually being implemented and followed on a day to day basis. Questions should be raised if unexpected changes have been made or unusual circumstances are detected. 

Safety, Loss Prevention and Security are the direct responsibility of line management and are important measures of managerial performance. In order to insure that every employee is prepared to work safely, every supervisor has the responsibility to provide a safe work environment with proper equipment and adequate training. Each supervisor also has the responsibility, through personal example and the involvement of all employees, to create a climate in which everyone shares concern for the safety and security of their fellow workers and for the prevention of losses. 

The team s expertise should be compatible with the kind of audit to be conducted. Audits of certain programs may require the selection of specialists in electrical equipment, pressure vessels, maintenance, motor fleet activities, and other fields. Line managers of other units are excellent members of audit teams. They bring a different background to spot weaknesses. In addition, participation is a learning experience for the manager and increases the involvement of those responsible for results. It may also be helpful to have a previous auditor of the unit as one member of the audit team. 

Everything discussed about this fictitious group so far deals with the reporting or functional or line management relationships involved, which are reflected in the job titles group leader, scientist, and research associate. Now the other dimension of the matrix needs to be considered the project relationships. 

As previously noted, line managers are ultimately responsible for evaluating the people who report to them, but input from other sources, especially project leaders in the matrix management system, is important as well. The line manager s supervisor and supervisors up to the departmental VP are likely to be involved too. This is a result of the need to keep evaluations and the resulting raises fair and to equalize them across the whole department and the whole company. The smaller the company, the less this is needed, of course. 

Multiproject resource-management tools These tools help line managers manage scarce resources across the many projects in which their organizations ace involved. They include tools such as ResSolution and Business Engine. 

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