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DVD Library for Supervisors
DVDs may be borrowed by Rutgers employees for up to 7 days by calling the Office of Employment Equity at 732-932-3020, ext. 4030. The DVDs may be viewed on computers with DVD components and standard DVD players.
- Avoiding Litigation Landmines: A Survival Guide for Managers
- Between You and Me: Solving Conflict
- Ethics 4 Everyone
- Interviewing: Getting Beyond the Image
- Legal & Effective Interviewing II: The Right Questions
- Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism
- Would I Work for Me?
Avoiding Litigation Landmines: A Survival Guide for Managers
Employment law litigation has exploded over the last five years—one in five managers will find himself or herself in litigation at some time during his or her career. Managers will learn how to avoid the top nine litigation landmines:
- failure to document
- failure to train
- failure to keep evidence
- grade inflation
- failure to talk to HR
- inappropriate email
- inconsistent treatment
- loose lips
- inappropriate letter of reference
Avoiding Litigation Landmines provides tools for unlocking the potential of the individuals within a workforce.
Length: 30 minutes
Format: DVD
Languages: English and Spanish
Between You and Me: Solving Conflict
This video offers practical and effective ways to resolve both interpersonal and professional conflicts at work. The program uses realistic role plays to help employees embrace teamwork and solve their own conflicts without management intervention.
Length: 28 minutes
Format: DVD
Languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese
With issues of integrity and accountability in the daily news, perhaps it's time for a refresher course in ethics. This program covers it all—from taking home a few office supplies, to ethnic jokes, and more. Narrated by ethicist Eric Harvey, co-author of the best-selling "Walk the Talk" book series, these lessons have helped more than three-quarters of Fortune magazine's "Most Admired Companies" turn values into value-added results.
Ethics 4 Everyone teaches viewers:
- the Three R's of ethics: respect, responsibility, and results
- how to say 'no' with tact
- how to manage conflicting rights
- how to 'walk the (ethics) talk'
Ethics 4 Everyone illustrates the cause-and-effect of corporate and individual responsibility, offering doable solutions, including how to make decisions that ensure a greater ethical response to professional issues.
Length: 15 minutes
Format: DVD
Language: English
Interviewing: Getting Beyond the Image
Candidates are likely to present themselves in a persona that you are looking for during the interview. As an interviewer, however, you want to know more than what is presented to you. This video offers tips on developing interview questions, using behavioral and situational questions to predict future behavior, and techniques to use in committee interviews.
As this video does not address discriminatory interview questions, consider viewing Legal & Effective Interviewing II: The Right Questions as well.
Length: 27 minutes
Format: DVD
Languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Legal & Effective Interviewing II: The Right Questions
Asking illegal questions, such as those concerning family status, religious views, disabilities or birthdates, could result in potentially damaging and expensive legal action. Knowing your boundaries is one of the most important facets of the interviewing process. This video provides a practical approach in setting the interview tone, the general interview format, listening techniques, and more, including:
- preparing for the interview
- avoiding discrimination and lawsuits
- gathering information
- closing and documenting the interview
Length: 14 minutes
Format: DVD
Languages: English and Spanish
Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism
Narrated by comedian John Cleese, this video highlights the importance of constructive criticism, preventing the recurrence of mistakes and improving staff performance. The video also:
- helps managers understand that criticism is an essential part of a manager's responsibilities
- shows why people should only be criticized for what they've done and not who they are
- emphasizes how criticism, presented badly, can make things worse
- lays down seven rules for ensuring that criticism is offered effectively and without acrimony
Length: 19 minutes
Format: DVD
Language: English with option for on-screen English subtitles
Trying to get the most out of the people you supervise and inspiring them to go that extra mile isn't easy. But most employees will tell you that what affects their productivity more than anything is their immediate supervisor.
Would I Work For Me? demonstrates a supervisor's behavior in realistic situations—first as a newly appointed supervisor, and then as a more experienced manager who has learned from his mistakes. Viewers will learn eight effective management skills that improve motivation and productivity.
Length: 20 minutes
Format: DVD
Languages: English and Spanish
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