Importance of Supervision
Miscellanea / / August 08, 2023
In general, in every work group, of whatever type it may be, there is a figure called "supervisor" and that it is represented by a person, be it a man or a woman. What specific tasks correspond to this supervisor? Precisely, is the one who does the supervisory tasks, and yesSupervising means carrying out control actions that will later give way to an analysis and evaluation of the performance of each and every one of the members. that make up the rest of the work team.
It is common for this figure of the supervisor to be associated with its beginning as a role within a work team since the processes "fordists" -or serial production- began to prevail as methodology from work to beginning of the 20th century and it was necessary for supervision to be part of the production process, since concepts such as «productivity« and for this reason it was necessary to know the particular performance of each worker.
However, supervision as a task within an organization is almost as old as the job itself. Let us think, for example, of the ancient empires such as the Egyptian or the Roman, in which thousands of men make up armies of work (some were even under slave condition), and they had to fulfill the tasks assigned in the
construction of temples and palaces. In some way, there must have been supervision or, more broadly, control, because otherwise why then was there punishment for those who did not fulfill their assigned tasks?However, punishment as a result of supervision is not just a thing of ancient times. In the case of the late nineteenth century, and before many of the rights that workers enjoy today were recognized, poor work performance detected by supervisors meant overtime, reduced food rations or physical punishment in the case of jobs where you might be better off talking about slavery instead of employment.
However, beyond the fact that there is a supervisor in every organization, not everything is always related to the figure of a single person who watches over others. At present, monitoring systems through security cameras are a great help in large companies that have several areas in which the staff performs and then the supervision is supported by the technology to accomplish surveillance work.
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