We consider a situation where an agent’s effort is monitored by a supervisor who cares for the agent’s well–being. This is modeled by incorporating the agent’s utility into the utility function of the supervisor. The first–best solution can be implemented even if the supervisor’s preferences are unknown. The corresponding optimal contract is similar to what we observe in practice: The superviso...

This paper introduces a new interruption recovery tool designed to mitigate the negative effects of interruptions on team supervisors in complex, mission control operations. This tool, called the Interruption Recovery Assistance (IRA) tool, provides team supervisors with a visual summary of historical mission changes, in the form of an event timeline. It also enables supervisors to gather more ...

BACKGROUND There is little empirical information on how general practitioner (GP) supervisors teach and the reasons for the variation in their teaching methods. Could the variation be due to differing motivations to teach? METHODS Supervisors from one regional training provider who attended educational workshops in 2013 were surveyed, seeking infor-mation on their motivation to become and rem...

The aim of this conceptual paper is to propose pathways through which psychological contract breach, ethical leader behaviour, and supervisors’ fairness are related to employees’ attitudes, behaviours and wellbeing. The paper reviews extant literature and builds a logical framework depicting the interrelationships among psychological contract breach, ethical leader behaviours, and supervisors’ ...

This paper explores the contribution of work-based supervision to an education programme in mental health from the perspectives of supervisors and supervisees. It attempts to clarify the supervisory role by looking at the literature together with supervisors reported learning and development needs. Supervisors responded positively to a development programme established to help them support thei...

Thesis projects are a challenging task for students as well as their supervisors. In most cases, students have not managed such large projects before. Many supervisors are good researchers, but have not received training in pedagogy and project management. This means that students as well as supervisors often lack best practices in managing thesis projects. This paper fills this gap by providin...

Clinical supervision for residential care staff is essential, and yet has rarely been studied. Drawing from the reflective practice tradition, we interviewed residential care supervisors about their clinical decision-making process, and analyzed the data qualitatively to identify common themes and distill their beliefs and reported practices. We found supervisors prioritized a compassion-based ...