Define supervision

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What is meant by supervision?

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In management, supervision means overseeing the subordinates at work with authority and with an aim to guide the employee, if he is doing wrong. Overseeing is to be done at all levels of management from top to bottom. Lower level management or first line supervisor oversees the work of operative staff while middle and top management remains busy in overseeing the work of their subordinate management members. Thus supervision is concerned with directing and guiding non-management members of the organisation.
According to Dale S. Beach supervision is the function of leading, coordinating and directing the work of others to accomplish designated objectives."