Peter Barron Stark Companies Helping CEOs, Managers & HR Professionals

“Functions of a Supervisor”

As nearly everyone knows, a supervisor has practically nothing to do except, to decide what is to be done;
to tell somebody to do it;

to listen to reasons why it should not be done, why it should be done by someone else, or why it should be done in a different way;
to follow up to see if the thing has been done;
to discover it has not been done;
to inquire why it has not been done;

to listen to excuses from the person who should have done it;

to follow up again to see if the thing has been done, only to discover it has been done incorrectly;
to point out how it should have been done;
to conclude that as long as it has been done it might as well be left where it is;

to wonder if it is time to get rid of a person who cannot do a thing right;
to reflect that he/she probably has a significant other and a large family,
and certainly any successor would be just as bad and maybe worse;

to consider how much simpler and better the thing would have been done
if one had done it oneself in the first place;