Supervision

SUPERVISION

Meaning

Supervision is an act of directing, managing or overseeing the subordinate at work. It refers to a cooperative relationship between the leader and one or more person to accomplish a particular job. It is undertaken at all levels of management and face to face communication is useful for supervision.

Supervision – Definition

“Supervision is achieving the desired results by means of intelligent utilisation of human talent” -GR TERRY

Principles of Supervision

·           Supervision should encourage self-expression to draw out the potential abilities of a worker.

·           It  should provide initiative to individual to take more responsibility.

·           It should provide full opportunity to do work in cooperation to develop the team spirit and also to develop the good interpersonal relationship.

·           It should meet the individual needs.

·           Good supervision respects the personality of an individual.

Qualities of a Supervisor

From the above diagram, it has revealed that, a Supervisor should possess with five qualities. This will ensure the supervisor to achieve the organisational goals and objectives.

1. Knowledge of the organisation: Supervisor should understand the full information about the organisation that is rules and regulation, byelaws, policies and procedures.

2. Technical Knowledge: As the organisation becomes fully computerised environment, every supervisor would have the technical knowledge such as computing skills, electronic communication skill etc.

3. Honesty: Supervisor should develop morality among the subordinates. Without honesty, no supervisor could achieve their organisational goals.

4. Ability to listen: Supervisor is not only instructing their subordinates always, but also he has to hear the information given by subordinates for the welfare of the organisation.

5. Ability to talk well: Supervisor should have the ability to communicate his subordinates for the better achievement of organizational objectives.