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foreman

an alternative term for SUPERVISOR used mainly in manufacturing organizations.
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"We have completed our foremanship and apprenticeship and now we are beginning our mastership," Erdogan told reporters after his party announced list of candidates for the upcoming general elections.
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She put it on, and proceeding to give him a very animated lesson in foremanship. Jenny, as are Ellie and Kyla, is a six-foot-tall woman.
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Of significance here was Taylor's concept of 'functional foremanship' which prescribed that activities such as selection, planning of work, costing, procurement of materials and quality control be done according to scientific methods by relevant qualified staff personnel (Child and Partridge 1982).
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