Some of the roles of the supervisor can be briefly shown below:
- Guidelines:
A supervisor guides the workers and provides instruction to the workers and the subordinates. Without proper guidelines, the subordinates may not perform the job well.
- Regular monitoring:
Under supervision, a supervisor regularly evaluates the performance of the subordinates. Thus, supervision evaluates the performance of the employees. Reward to a good performer and punishment to bad performer can be justifiable implemented within the organization through supervision.
- Continuous feedback:
Supervision provides feedback to the workers needed for their better performance. It is very necessary to provide feedback to the workers so that they will get more motivated towards their working performance and can learn many lessons from it.
- Suitable incentives and environment:
Through effective supervision, a supervisor can give incentives and create work environment. It is very important to provide necessary incentives and working environment to the workers.
- Sense of goal and direction:
Supervisor provides the knowledge about corporate goals and directions suited for the organizational success. It is necessary to have a sense of goal and direction for achieving the objectives of the organization.
- Quality product and services:
Supervision helps the organization to establish product/service by supervising the performance of the employees regularly, due to which, he can maintain the standard.
- Link between management and employees:
Supervision is the indispensable link between the workers and management. The supervisor has to carry out the orders and instructions of the management and fulfills their aspirations. On the aother hand, he is also the friend and guide of the workers. He has to establish an effective and harmonious relationship between workers and management.