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Topic 8: Supervision and performance appraisal

The roles and responsibilities of supervisors
Developing effective supervision skills
What are 'performance management' and 'performance appraisal'?
Why appraise performance?
The practice of performance appraisal

Virtually all organisations are hierarchical. They consist of a series of levels of management, each of which is responsible to the one above it, and responsible for the one below it. Unless you occupy a junior position in an organisation you will be responsible for the supervision of a group of people whom we will refer to as 'your staff'.

Topic 7: Hiring and dismissing staff

Recruitment and selection
The recruitment process
Selection methods and their effectiveness
Dismissing staff: what are the responsibilities of managers?
Retaining staff

Selecting the right people is possibly the most important function of a manager. The future of any organisation depends on the quality and suitability of the people working for it. New people who do not share the values or the culture of the organisation are going to present ongoing problems of integration and management.

Topic 1: What is 'people management' and why does it matter?

What is 'people management'?
People management in a climate of change
The importance of people management

The first line states; "People management is about managing people" (and project management is about managing projects, operations management is about managing operations and tautology management is about managing tautologies.) Thanks for that!

People management is a subset of human resource management, which deals with strategic, financial and policy issues, as well as people management.

Unit 402: Contemporary People Management

Prior to 2000, Unit 402 was titled Human Resource Management. As human resource management (HRM) has for many come to mean a defined staff support function and group within an organisation, Contemporary People Management was seen as a more appropriate unit title, reflecting a changed approach to how people are commonly managed in organisations today.

Topic 1: What is 'people management' and why does it matter?
Topic 2: The legal environment for managing people

Parallel NETCDF Installation

Parallel NETCDF is an implementation of the Network Common Data Form which supports parallel I/O. An excellent summary of the advantages are described by Choudhary, Liao, Gao, and Li.

Installation is fairly trivial. Download the tarball from the site, extract, load some modules, configure for the appropriate site, make and make install, and create modules. For example;


wget http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/parallel-netcdf/parallel-netcdf-1.2.0.tar.bz2

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