Taken together, these activities compose the four main objectives of supervision as defined by US Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Maximizing Access and Quality Initiative: setting expectations, monitoring and evaluation of performance, identifying problems and opportunities for improvement, and mobilizing action [ 5].
Possible reasons for the failure to implement this principle include a lack of time, role models and skills as well as a lack of priority given to this dimension by the health care system in its expectations, monitoring and evaluation.
Supportive supervision that defines objectives and expectations, monitors performance, helps interpret data, provides focused education, helps with planning and problem solving, and enhances community participation is critical.
Wilshaw, a member of the panel formed by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to review the national curriculum, put the school's success down to high expectations, close monitoring of staff and acting as a surrogate parent for pupils.
It appears as if they were trying to identify the person's intentions or expectations, by monitoring his visual attention, for the eyes carry a great deal of information on one's attentional state [16].
The Monitoring/Supervision Scale (MSS, Parenting Research Centre, 2005) is a 5-item scale designed to assess importance, expectations and monitoring strategies reported by parents.
measuring various secondary cosmic ray fluxes were compared with theoretical expectations and monitors operated on different longitudes and latitudes.
Perhaps the best alternative is to provide course correction for the unethical employee, set appropriate expectations, and monitor the outcome.
In the words of J Fraser [ 5]: Internationally, rising costs and increasing consumer and government expectations to monitor quality, contain costs, and integrate health services have increased regulation and reduced the autonomy of GPs and other health care professionals.
Managing active-learning logistics involves setting up a lesson so that students know what is expected of them and have enough time to meet expectations and then monitoring lesson logistics and responding appropriately.
