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Business Definition for: Supervisor

  • an employee who is given authority and responsibility for planning and controlling the work of a group through close contact. A supervisor is the first level of management in an organization. The subordinates he or she controls are usually at a nonmanagerial level, and the supervisor is wholly responsible for their work.

Wiktionary Definition for: Supervisor

  • management A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group.
  • ptmanagement : supervisor
  • supervisor

Additional Resources

General Supervisor
The General Supervisor job description template includes the following job summary: Directs the activities of the press, welding, assembly, and tool Room departments in an efficient manner for the desired quality and quantity of work. Reports to the Director of Manufacturing. Positions supervised include Press Room Supervisor, Welding Supervisor, Assembly...
Tags: Job, Supervisor, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Supervisor, Clinical/Program
The Supervisor, Clinical/Program job description template includes the following job summary: The Supervisor is responsible for assuring the quality of services provided to the service recipients, coordinating day-to-day operations of the assigned unit, and recommending and implementing changes that would improve delivery of services. The Supervisor will also provide direct...
Tags: Job, Supervisor, Workforce Management, Human Resources
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Sample Data Entry Supervisor Resume
This sample data entry supervisor resume will give you a quickstart on building an effective and optimized resume for your job application. Users can feel free to customize and edit this sample data entry supervisor resume as per their requirement for job application. This data entry supervisor resume will go...
Tags: Job, Data Entry, Best Sample Resume, Data Entry Supervisor
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Maintenance Supervisor
The Maintenance Supervisor job description template includes the following job summary: The Maintenance Supervisor works in cooperation with the Residential Program Directors, Program Specialists/Coordinators, and Residence Managers/Residence Supervisors to coordinate the safety and maintenance and equipment needs of owned and leased facilities in which residential services programs are provided. The...
Tags: Job, Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Insurance Department Supervisor
The Insurance Department Supervisor job description template includes the following job summary: The Insurance Department Supervisor oversees the insurance collections, including the processing of insurance claims and assisting patients with questions about their coverage. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
Tags: Job, Supervisor, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
The art of flexibility: IDG's Flexible Procurement Solutions has earned profits for its creators as well as money for its customers.(Value-Added)
At a customer's plant, a supervisor was giving a tour to a specialist from Industrial Distribution Group, explaining what this machine did, what that machine did. Pointing to a production puncher, the supervisor said something along the lines of, & At a customer's plant,...
Tags: International Data Group, procurement
Research articles 2003-10-01
Business Objects Announces BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 SUPERVISOR and DESIGNER modules; New SUPERVISOR Module Provides IS with Graphical User and Security Administration; New DESIGNER Module Streamlines Setup
CUPERTINO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 25, 1996--Business Objects, a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools, today announced version 4.0 of its BUSINESSOBJECTS SUPERVISOR and BUSINESSOBJECTS DESIGNER modules.
Tags: Business Objects, security, security administration, supervisor
Research articles 1996-03-25
Performance Management: Performance Improvement Plan
The Performance Improvement Plan PIP is designed to facilitate constructive discussion between a staff member and his or her supervisor and to clarify the work performance to be improved. It is implemented, at the discretion of the supervisor, when it becomes necessary to help a staff member improve his or...
Tags: Workforce Management, Performance Management, Performance Improvement Plan, Performance, Supervisor, Human Resources
White papers
Epiphany House to Honor Supervisor Ma
WHO: Supervisor Fiona Ma Sister Eileen Kenny, Mt. St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth WHAT: Supervisor Ma will be honored for her work to restore funding to Epiphany House, a program...
Tags: supervisor
Research articles 2004-10-18
How and When to Delegate
Delegating tasks to employees accomplishes a variety of things. One of which is less work for the supervisor. So why doesn't one delegate? Is not it that supervisors don't know how to delegate work nor could it being that there are different reasons why supervisors don't delegate work to their...
Tags: Workforce Management, Supervisor, Human Resources
White papers 2006-10-28
Good Cop/Bad Cop' Supervisors Threaten Employee Productivity
Supervisors who direct both positive support and negative behaviors toward an employee cause more damage than if they were always negative. "social undermining", not only counteract positive measures, but can reduce productivity and destroy relationships. The negative effects are strong if a supervisor is undermining a subordinate, but the undermining...
Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Supervisor
White papers 2002-06-05
Building Teams To Self-Manage And Grow
From the executive summary: ‘Self-directed teams sometimes called self-managed teams, empowered work units, or autonomous work teams function in their truest sense without supervisory authority. Team members are interdependent, but the role of supervisor usually is missing. A self-directed team is as much a team as any other, but it...
Tags: Team Management, Supervisor, Team, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
How Does Your Boss Stack Up?
How Does Your Boss Stack Up?RE: How Does Your Boss Stack Up?Not in a position to tell about my immidiate supervisor as because he is very new and transfered here just few days back. I can tell about my supervisor's supervisor..........he is an asshole.RE: How Does Your Boss Stack Up?The...
Tags: Workforce management, supervisor
Discussion threads 2008-10-07
How To Conduct In-Person Exit Interviews
Definitely have exit interviews done by a third party HR or other and not with the supervisor in attendance. The goal is to get honest communication, the plus AND the minus. With the Supervisor in attendance, chances are slim that the exiting employee will speak up on any important issues....
Tags: Attendance, Supervisor, Goal, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2002-01-01
Pharmacy Technician Supervisor Job Description
The Pharmacy Technician Supervisor job description template includes the following job summary: The pharmacy technician supervisor supervises the IV pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technicians. All activities are performed in accordance with established policies and procedures and are carried out in the highest achievable level of competence in a manner demonstrating...
Tags: Job, Supervisor, Pharmacy Technician, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Resolving Large Financial Intermediaries: Banks Versus Housing Enterprises
Key Congressional committees have recently devoted considerable attention to the organizational structure and powers of the supervisor of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to this report, one of the most contentious issues in that debate is whether the supervisor should have receivership powers in the event that either housing...
Tags: Financial, Bank, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Supervisor
White papers 2004-10-01
People.(Grey Worldwide appoints Cynthia D'Alessandro)(NBC Universal Television appoints Lee Straus)(Time Inc. appoints Scott Dickey)(Brief article)
Cynthia D'Alessandro, 47, to VP-management supervisor, Northlich, Cincinnati, from VP-group management supervisor, Grey Worldwide, New York. Cynthia D'Alessandro, 47, to VP-management supervisor, Northlich, Cincinnati, from VP-group management supervisor, Grey Worldwide, New York.
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Time Inc., TV
Research articles 2006-05-01
Supervisor Improvement Form
In order for any supervisor to be completely effective, they need to learn from their subordinates. This template gives employees an opportunity to review managers' performance. Supervisors can learn a lot about their performance as managers from their subordinates.
Tags: Supervisor, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Subordinate
Tools & templates 2001-01-18
Xicor Adds Intel Version To Its Microcontroller Supervisor Family; New Reset Controller With Programmable Watchdog Timer And E2PROM Drives; 80C51 Microcontrollers Without The Need For Additional Circuitry
MILPITAS, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 29, 1996--Xicor Inc. today announced the introduction of a new single-chip microcontroller supervisor, the X25045.
Tags: circuitry, Intel Corp., microcontroller, supervisor
Research articles 1996-01-29
Sink-or-Swim Attitude Strands New Managers
"Training new supervisors has a positive effect on all of the supervisor’s staff and produces more results than the supervisor was able to accomplish as an individual performer. While many companies offer some sort of management training, often it’s ineffective. But by adjusting when the training is conducted, what is...
Tags: Workforce Management, Training, Human Resources, Supervisor, Society For Human Resource Management
White papers 2003-02-01
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