It had been apparent for some time that the supervision course taught by
ACT TAFE (based on the 1970 NSW curriculum) was not meeting the training
needs of ACT supervisors. This study is a detailed account of how the
new curriculum in supervision was developed.
The first section is a literature survey directed toward the most
relevant problems concerning supervision: the duties and
responsibilities of supervisors and their training. The literature
shows how the perception of a supervisor has changed from that of a
craftsman in charge of men in an assembly plant to that of a first-line
or sub-manager, technical specialist or workgroup coordinator working
with men and women in white collar occupations. Training research was
surveyed in the areas of training needs assessment, curriculum,
management development and evaluation. From these and further studies
specifically on supervision courses in TAFE (the only post-secondary
provider of training in this area), it was concluded that its piecemeal
and haphazardly developed courses were unlikely to fulfil supervisors'
training needs or gain the acceptance of employers.
The second part of the field study is a survey of the opinions of ACT
supervision students, supervisors and managers on their training needs
in supervision. The techniques used were structured interviews with
students and a postal questionnaire to managers and supervisors in the
public and private sectors.
Finally, the curriculum was formulated using results from the two
previous sections. Although the response rate from the postal survey
was low, the results were nevertheless useful, confirming the data
obtained from past students. In the final analysis, three factors
contributed almost equally to the design of the curriculum: ideas and
findings in the literature, the surveys, and my own experience as a
supervisor, manager and teacher.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218823 |
| Date | January 1985 |
| Creators | Cameron, Patricia, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Patricia Cameron |
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