Nature of Supervision

Dr, Joel M. Balason

WHAT IS SUPERVISION?

 Guiding the people who performs the work. It Includes POLC.

 ‘Co-ordination by someone taking responsibility for the work of others including planning,
scheduling, allocating, instructing and monitoring actions’ (Mintzberg, 1979).
 ‘The supervisor…usually organizes or directs the work of others by giving direct instructions,
although subordinate supervisors may be involved as an additional layer between supervisor
and worker’ (Weston, Grimshaw & Norton, 1989).
 directing the work of others, allocating workload, planning and scheduling, instructing and
monitoring actions, maintaining discipline, taking responsibility and ultimately being held
accountable for the work done.
Con’t

 ‘The supervisor is the shop-floor face of the organization, the filter or lens through which
management messages and attitudes are transmitted to the workforce and views and
feedback from the shop-floor passed back up to line management’ (Lardner & Miles,
1998).
Nature of Supervision

 It involves guiding the activities of the subordinates to accomplish a given task

 It includes POLC of the work and activities of the employees
 It also includes the concept of unit task accomplishment; that the supervisor is responsible
for accomplishing’s the unit objectives.
Who is a Supervisor?