Supervision is the act or function of overseeing something or somebody. It is the process that involves guiding, instructing and correcting someone.[2]
A person who performs supervision is a "supervisor", but does not always have the formal title of supervisor. A person who is getting supervision is the "supervisee".
Generally, supervision contains elements of providing knowledge, helping to organize tasks, enhance motivation, and monitoring activity and results; the amount of each element is varying in different contexts.[2]
Inacademia, supervision is aiding and guiding of a postgraduate research student, graduate student, or undergraduate student, in their research project; offering both moral support and scientific insight and guidance.[3] The supervisor is often a senior scientist or scholar, and in some countries called doctoral advisor.
Inbusiness, supervision is overseeing the work of staff. The person performing supervision could lack a formal title or carry the title supervisorormanager, where the latter has wider authority.[4]
Insociety, supervision could be performed by the state or corporate entities to monitor and control its citizens.[6] Public entities often do supervision of different activities in the nation, such as bank supervision.
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Asgar, Jack (2008). Supervision - The Organizational Role of Supervisors: What Every Supervisor Needs to Know. Universal-Publishers. ISBN9781599429694.
