Me Supervisor, So What I Do? Part 1

What actually is the supervisor's role?

Let us define first the word supervisor. I took this from Wikipedia:

An employee is a supervisor if he has the power and authority to do the following actions (according to the Ontario Ministry of Labour):

1. Give instructions and/or orders to subordinates.
2. 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.

Supervisor >> got subordinates
Supervisor >> responsible for the results of the job assigned to him/her

Normally I would tell my training participants, supervisor role/responsibilty covers the 4M: Man, Machine, Material and Method.

Will continue.