Sunday, May 17, 2009

THE BURDEN OF BEING A SUPERVISOR

In every organization, there should be a leader who will guide his employees in accordance to the issued set of rules and regulations as the framework of checks and balances for the effectiveness of the operation. The most important key personnel in an organization is the supervisor. He becomes the main channel of all communications from his subordinates up to the higher management. He oversees the health condition of his employees. He always alert of finding ways of improving their working condition. He handles conflict within the organization and solve them. He guides his subordinates to know the different levels of handling the job and exerts more effort to let them know more.

His main function is to keep close watch of his employees' performance of their corresponding duties and responsibilities. He sees to it that all things are operating effectively on certain condition. Any lapses has to be corrected by calling the attention of the erring personnel of his inability to carry-out his assigned job.

Aside from those mentioned above, he also have some administrative function of preparing and submitting the required reports for his superiors information. He issues instruction to his subordinates of any new development for their guidance. This information dissemination is important for the employees to act in accordance with the demand of the job. He has a tasks to know all government regulations and comply with the issued restrictions under specific guidelines that he should abide.

He monitors employees' responsibilities and see to it that the operational standards are meet. He is responsible in training and retraining of personnel. Any complaints arising from day to day operation, will be handled properly.

He screens, interviews all qualified candidates for hiring. For those already being hired, he trains, motivates and orient employees in improving efficiency and good performance of their work.

A periodic appraisal of employees recommended for promotion to higher position by increasing their corresponding salary. He will initiates regular training programs for the purpose of upgrading their knowledge and efficiency for greater effectiveness. He expects his employees to accomplish more by helping them to manage their time to avoid delays and missed deadlines in processing, billing, lay-outing and reporting.

He will not delegates everything to the same employee. He spreads the function among employees to develop a better skills and abilities.

Being a supervisor is not an easy task. The success of the business lies to the people selected by the higher management who are very competent and has varied skills and thorough experiences to run the business with trust and confidence otherwise it becomes a total failure.

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