Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

Chapter 22. Converting Change into Opportunity

After you have finished reading this chapter, you should be able to convert most changes into career opportunities for you and your staff.

When you hear the words downsizing, layoffs, lean and mean, restructuring, relocating, decentralizing, new information technology, and retraining, you know that change is around the corner. Change is anything that happens in our environment that requires a human adjustment. The dramatic tempo of change continues to accelerate, and the impact falls more on the supervisor than on staff employees. As a beginning manager, the way you accept and interpret changes to your staff and how you cope personally will have a measurable effect upon departmental productivity ...