ENTC 4017

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ENTC 4017

• Industrial Supervision

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ENTC 4017

• SYLLABUS

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Instructor Dr. Hugh Blanton

• Room 222-A
• Phone [phone]
• email blanton_at_etsu.edu
• Office hrs TR300 pm--400 pm
• Website http//faculty.etsu.edu/blanton

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Students

• Name
• Major

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COREQUISITE

• ENTC 3030--Technical Writing

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CATALOG DESCRIPTION

• Behavoral studies related to supervision.
• Supervisory functions, motivation, interviewing,
  and personal advancement.
• Lecture, case studies, discussions, and reports.

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Objectives

• The course is intended to introduce the student
  to basic supervision concepts, theories, and
  applications.
• Supervision will be explored in terms of the
  functions that supervisors perform.
• An overview of supervisor skills, concerns, and
  challenges, especially people skills and the
  utilization of people in organizations is
  contained in the course.
• This overview will aid the student in
  appreciating the problems and issues that arise
  in modern organizations.

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Textbook

• Samuel Certo, Supervision Concepts and Skill
  Building. Fourth Edition. Irwin McGraw-Hill
  2002.
• Power point presentations will be available on
  the web site
• http//faculty.etsu.edu/blanton.
• Look in the hyperlink
• ENTC_4017.

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Grades

• There will be three exams given during the
  semester including the final exam.
• Exams are based on lectures and textbook
  materials.
• Four mini-essays and a more extensive project
  paper will meet the writing intensive portion of
  the course.
• If a student misses an exam due to illness or
  valid excuse, he/she may make up the exam during
  the last class.
• There will be no make up exams prior to that
  time.

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Grade guidelinesMini EssaysSubjective
A (100-93) Outstanding Exceptional in form and content
A-, B,B (92-84) Above average Fine work, few minor flaws interesting, insightful, logical, well designed, well developed, well organized, clear and attractive style, grammatically correct, no major flaws
B-, C, C, C- (83-70) Average Generally correct, shows understanding of course concepts, reasonably competent but with some important flaws, a mixture of strengths and weaknesses
D (70-60) Below average Seriously deficient in content, form, or style
F Failing Incoherent ideas, very disorganized presentation, many grammatical problems, other excessive flaws
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Major Errors in Writing

• No thesis
• Found in the introduction
• Defines the essence of the paper
• ParagraphToo many main ideas and too long.
• Each paragraph should have one main topic and
  should be two or more sentences.
• Comma usageComma used where shouldnt be and not
  used where should be.
• Sentence doesnt make sense.
• Sentence fragmentSubject with no verb.
• Citations References
• Citations not used.
• Citations not used correctly.

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• The grade for the course will be based upon the
  three exams and the written assignments
• Exam 1 10
• Exam 2 10
• Exam 3 (Final Exam) 10
• 1-1 page Term Paper Proposal 5
• 4-2 page Mini Essays 40
• 1-7 to12 page Term Paper 25
• 100

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Course Grade

• A 94-100
• A- 90-93
• B 87-89
• B 84-86
• B- 80-83
• C 77-79
• C 74-76
• C- 70-73
• D 67-69
• D 64-66
• D- 60-63
• F below 60

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ENTC 4017

• Course Content

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Week 1

• Syllabus and Introduction
• Assignment Read Chapters 1 2.

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Week 2

• Assignment Mini-Essay 1. Due 1/23/03
• Mini-Essay 1
• List the organization and department in which you
  work.
• Interview your supervisor regarding
• What he/she does in the course of a typical day.
• How much of their time is spent working with
  people.
• What is the hardest part of their job.
• What is the most satisfying part of their job.
• What management functions (planning, organizing,
  staffing, directing (leading), controlling) do
  they perform.
• You should use third person passive when
  possible.
• There should be at least two citations in your
  report.
• Read Chapters 3 4.

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Week 3

• Assignment Read Chapters 5 6

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Week 4

• Review for Test 1 Chapters 1-6

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Week 5 (February 6, 2003)

• Test 1 Chapters 1-6
• Assignment
• Read Chapters 7 8.

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Week 6

• One page proposal
• Assignment
• Read Chapters 9 10 Mini-Essay 2. Due 2/20/03
• Mini-Essay 2 The American with Disabilities Act
  prohibits discrimination against disabled
  employees in the private sector and encourages
  reasonable accommodation for them.
• Conduct an Internet/library search on the
  legislation and find one recent court case ruling
  in favor of the plaintiff and one recent course
  case ruling against the plaintiff and discuss the
  merits of each.

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Week 7

• Assignment
• Read Chapters 11 12
• One page proposal outlining your term paper.
• February 27, 2003
• Term Paper
• The term paper must be at least seven pages and
  no more than 15 pages in length not including the
  title page, reference pages, and appendices. The
  paper will be typewritten and double spaced.
  Topics for Term Paper will be
• Discrimination in the workplace.
• Total Quality Management.
• The Effects of Improving Productivity in the
  workplace.
• Diversity in the workplace.
• The Effects of Federal and State laws.
• Leadership and vision.
• Each paper must have
• an introduction (1-3 pages) discussing the topic
  to be covered.
• The introduction will be followed by research
  concerning the current thinking on the topic (3-5
  pages) and
• your conclusions (2-4) pages.

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Week 8

• Review for Test 1 Chapters 7-12

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Week 9 March, 6 2003

• Test 2Chapters 7-12
• Assignment
• Read Chapters 13 14
• Mini-Essay 3. Due 3/13/03
• Mini-Essay 3--Use yourself as an example and
  lists those methods that successfully motivate
  you and those methods that do not.
• Dont forget to compare those factors that
  motivate you with the theory presented in Certo.
• Dont forger your citations.

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Week 10

• Assignment
• Read Chapters 15 16

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Spring BreakMarch 20, 2003
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Week 11

• Assignment
• Read Chapters 17 18

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Week 12

• Assignment
• Read Chapters 19 20
• Mini-Essay 4. Due 4/10/03
• Mini-Essay 4 There is a growing interest in
  both the public and private sectors to increase
  productivity.
• Select a local industry--perhaps the industry for
  which you work--and describe productivity
  improvement that can be made.
• Dont forget to compare those factors that
  motivate you with the theory presented in Certo.
• Dont forger your citations.

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Week 13

• Review for Test 3
• Assignment
• Complete term paper.
• Term paper due on April, 17, 2003.

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Week 14April 17, 2003

• Test 3
• Term Paper Due.
• Paper Revisions Due

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ENTC 4017

• Revision Option

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Method

• Revision means literally "seeing again,"
  developing a new perspective on the writing task.
  
• Just correcting the original work based on my
  comments or your own observations will not be
  accepted as revision
• instead, you'll have to rewrite the document
  significantly.
• Some revisions can raise your grade
• all revisions should help you learn more about
  writing well.
• Im happy to help you to revise
• I highly recommend that you check in with me at
  some point before you submit a revised assignment
  so I can help you
• focus on the most important areas,
• brainstorm options,
• assess your progress, and
• otherwise assist you to improve.

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Grading

• Revisions of two assignments can be submitted for
  re-grading.
• No risk is involved (you cannot receive a lower
  grade than the one originally assigned)
• but neither do you have a guarantee of earning a
  higher grade for your effort.
• In order to insure that you work hard on your
  initial assignments, revision grades will not be
  more than one full grade higher than the original
  grade.
• Revision grades replace the original grades
  rather than being averaged with them.

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Materials

• The original document containing my comments and
  grade must accompany the revision,
• along with old and new background material.

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Timing

• You may submit a revised assignment at any time
  during the semester
• all revisions are due one week before the last
  day of classno exceptions.
• Students often find it useful to delay revision
  until later in the semester for the following
  reasons
• They can apply the additional course material to
  improve their writing
• They learn by practicing their writing skills in
  other assignments
• They gain perspective by putting the work away
  for a time
• They have more assignments to consider for
  revision, so they can choose the ones that will
  count most toward their course grade

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Questions?