This study demonstrates how the subordinate’s defensiveness predicts perception of managerial behaviors, which in turn leads to trust in supervisors. From a social information processing perspective, defensiveness, the affective reaction to uncertainty and vulnerability, serves as the “frame” subordinates use to decode and evaluate managerial behaviors. Trust in supervisors is anchored in this ...

The concept of attraction has been shown to play a basic role in the synthesis of supervisors for stabilizing discrete-event processes. In this paper we define and investigate optimal attraction optimal in the sense that the cost (or distance) of the convergence path is as small as possible with respect to some distance measure. We find conditions for the existence of supervisors achieving opti...

influence of supervisor trait mindfulness on employee well-being and performance. Abstract This research examines the influence of leaders' mindfulness on employee well-being and performance. We hypothesized that supervisors' trait mindfulness is positively associated with different facets of employee well-being, such as job satisfaction and need satisfaction, and different dimensions of employ...

The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions about a school counseling internship program at a university in Adana, Turkey by determining counseling interns’ perspectives on the effects of the internship program and supervisors’ perspectives on interns’ professional development. Data were collected from nine school counseling supervisors, 11 school counseling interns, 11 guidance teach...

This paper uses data from the sales division of a financial services firm to investigate how a leader’s centrality in external and internal social networks is related to the objective performance of the leader’s group, and to the leader’s personal reputation for leadership among subordinates, peers, and supervisors. External social network ties were based on the friendship ties among all 88 of ...

BACKGROUND Training bodies see teaching by junior doctors and vocational trainees in general practice (family medicine) as integral to a doctor's role. While there is a body of literature on teacher training programs, and on peer and near-peer teaching in hospitals and universities, there has been little examination of near-peer teaching in general practice. Near-peer teaching is teaching to th...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY A 6-month faculty development programme was designed to improve supervisors' feedback to junior doctors on their clinical communication skills (CS) and included both CS and teaching skills training. The aim of this study was to assess supervisors' views on the impact of the programme on their subsequent teaching and communication practice. STUDY DESIGN 28 clinical supervi...

UK three-year GP specialty training programmes consist of 18 months in hospital posts and 18 months in general practice. Within the hospital setting, clinical supervisors of GP trainees may have difficulty determining which learning opportunities available within the post are most relevant to training for a future career in general practice. Feedback from GP trainees has indicated that there is...

BACKGROUND South African (SA) paediatric interns (recently qualified medical graduates) work in a high disease burdened and resource deficient environment for two years, prior to independent practice. Perceptions of this learning environment (LE) influences their approaches to training as well as the outcomes of this period of development. Obstacles to creating a supportive LE and supervisor in...