What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he
has the wisdom and the maturity to use that power wisely.
~Christopher Reeve
The accepted definition of supervisor is "an employee who
supervises workers or the work done by others ." Any way you
define it, the key part of the word is super. Supervisors must give
superior effort to empower their employees to perform like
superman.
All kidding aside, supervisors should be intimately involved in
hiring, training, documenting performance, and deciding work
assignments and disciplinary actions. If you are a supervisor, you
should pull out your job description and bask in the glow of all
the important, varied, detailed, and managerial roles you are asked
to address. Now take a step back and realize that, while it may be
tempting to delegate your most difficult employee problems to other
departments, the buck starts and stops with you.
