The Successful Supervisor

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Title: The Successful Supervisor
Author(s): Downs, Robert B.
Issue Date: 1954
Keyword(s): School libraries
Date of Ingest: 2007-07-13T20:58:48Z
Abstract: The primary purpose of supervision is to accomplish certain ends. In order to achieve those objectives, one must, for better or worse, work through people. That is where the complexities begin, for as Charles Darwin discovered in studying the origin of species a century ago, no two individuals in the animal kingdom are ever exactly alike. If some way could be found to function without people, life for supervisors and administrators would be vastly simplified. But in that event, it is likely the supervisors would not be needed either. Assuming, then that people are here to stay, and we shall have to learn to live with them, and perchance even to like them, it may be well to examine some of the trade secrets, the important principles of supervision that may help to make the job easier.
Publisher: Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number: Allerton Park Institute (1st : 1954)
ISSN: 0536-4604
Type of Resource: text
Genre of Resource: Conference Paper / Presentation
Language: en
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Copyright and License Information: Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1954

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 1, 1954); Edited by Harold Lancour