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supervisor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supervisor \Su`per*vis"or\, n.
One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
A spectator; a looker-on. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who inspects and directs the work of others," mid-15c., from Medieval Latin supervisor, agent noun from supervidere "oversee, inspect" (see supervise).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context management English) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group. 2 A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them. 3 (context US English) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
WordNet
n. one who supervises or has charge and direction of
a program that controls the execution of other programs [syn: supervisory program, executive program]
Wikipedia
Supervisor, when the meaning sought is similar to foreman, foreperson, boss, overseer, cell coach, facilitator, monitor, or area coordinator, is the job title of a low level management position that is primarily based on authority over a worker or charge of a workplace. A Supervisor can also be one of the most senior in the staff at the place of work, such as a Professor who oversees a PhD dissertation. Supervision, on the other hand, can be performed by people without this formal title, for example by parents. The term Supervisor itself can be used to refer to any personnel who have this task as part of their job description.
An employee is a supervisor if he has the power and authority to do the following actions (according to the Ontario Ministry of Labour):
- Give instructions and/or orders to subordinates.
- Be held responsible for the work and actions of other employees.
If an employee cannot do the above, legally, he or she is probably not a supervisor, but in some other category, such as lead hand.
A supervisor is first and foremost an overseer whose main responsibility is to ensure that a group of subordinates get out the assigned amount of production, when they are supposed to do it and within acceptable levels of quality, costs and safety.
A supervisor is responsible for the productivity and actions of a small group of employees. The supervisor has several manager-like roles, responsibilities, and powers. Two of the key differences between a supervisor and a manager are (1) the supervisor does not typically have "hire and fire" authority, and (2) the supervisor does not have budget authority.
Lacking "hire and fire" authority means that a supervisor may not recruit the employees working in the supervisor's group nor does the supervisor have the authority to terminate an employee. The supervisor may participate in the hiring process as part of interviewing and assessing candidates, but the actual hiring authority rests in the hands of a Human Resource Manager. The supervisor may recommend to management that a particular employee be terminated and the supervisor may be the one who documents the behaviors leading to the recommendation but the actual firing authority rests in the hands of a manager.
Lacking budget authority means that a supervisor is provided a budget developed by management within which constraints the supervisor is expected to provide a productive environment for the employees of the supervisor's work group. A supervisor will usually have the authority to make purchases within specified limits. A supervisor is also given the power to approve work hours and other payroll issues. Normally, budget affecting requests such as travel will require not only the supervisor's approval but the approval of one or more layers of management.
As a member of management, a supervisor's main job is more concerned with orchestrating and controlling work rather than performing it directly.
The Supervisor Guardian is one of the 16 role variants of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves. David Keirsey originally described the Supervisor role variant; however, a brief summary of the personality types described by Isabel Myers contributed to its development. Supervisors correlate with the ESTJ Myers-Briggs type.
Usage examples of "supervisor".
Supervisors and sheriffs using affinity was something he could never get used to.
Likewise, the committing to a board of county supervisors of authority to determine, without notice or hearing, when repairs to an existing drainage system are necessary cannot be said to deny due process of law to landowners in the district, who, by statutory requirement, are assessed for the cost thereof in proportion to the original assessments.
November balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered local elections supervisors to purge 57,700 voters from registries on grounds they were felons not entitled to vote in Florida.
This after all was a probationary assignment, and the supervisor had the power to send Ronny Bronston back to the drudgery of his office job at Population Statistics.
From the other table advances Tommy Molto, the Homicide supervisor, who has elected to try this case, a rarity for him these 68 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS days.
He notified his supervisor, who passed the notice up the chain of command.
Something a little dressier than jeans should make a better impression on his supervisor and because they normally went bare-breasted, then maybe she better not wear any pasties on her nipples for this very important first meeting.
Madam Sealer, provided Boss Watts authorizes both all my overtime hours, and another supervisor to take over my routine duties.
The secretarial staff supervisor looked up from her desk as Claudia came into the large, untidy office overlooking the park.
When he returned to the shoppe, one of the Supervisors was waiting for him.
This is Crew Chief Venn of Graf Station Security, Boss Watts, who is supervisor of Graf Station Downsider Relations, and Assistant Portmaster Bel Thorne.
To hear that from a decorated Bureau veteran is an indication of the atmosphere of fear that exists among FBI street agents today - the fear that expressing even modest disagreement with a supervisor, or staying loyal to an asset the way Nancy Floyd had, might result in an investigation with career-ending implications.
There was a culture in the Bureau that dismissed the work of earnest brick agents like Nancy Floyd and her colleagues in Minneapolis while rewarding the mean-spirited incompetence of supervisors.
Everyone was wearing their antiflash masks, the Air Warfare Officers were murmuring into their headsets, the supervisors were pacing, all eyes were glued to the screens.
Southern Pacific Train Number Three arrived in Los Angeles on its overnight run from Phoenix on Monday morning, October 19, 1931, the baggageman reported to the district supervisor the two trunks had smelted up his car.