CHAPTER 7—SUPERVISORY PLANNING

37. Supervisors in every profession have the same degree of concern about workplace safety. 38. Supervisors are responsible for allocating space and managing physical resources. 39. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is devoted to reducing and preventing injuries and accidents in municipal buildings. 40. The primary responsibility of supervisory management is planning to use physical resources fully. 41. A wise supervisor realizes that “time is money” and therefore expects most employees to work continuously at top-speed. 42. The advent of flextime has helped supervisors cover workstations more effectively and has allowed them to exercise supervisory control more consistently throughout the work day. 43. Supervisors are frequently so caught up in the day-to-day routine that they may not notice when work procedures and methods need to be revised. 44. A just-in-time inventory control system is a system for scheduling employees. 45. PERT diagrams have been successfully used in many projects involving production and construction. 46. Total quality management (TQM) is a system for scheduling materials to arrive precisely when they are needed in the production process. 47. If an organization is run effectively it will never face a “crisis situation.” 48. The passage of time will usually take care of most crises an organization faces.