Successful Supervisory Leadership

Chapter 2Fundamental Principles of Supervisory Leadership

DOI: 10.4324/9781003335122-2

Introduction

The most important job of a manager, supervisor, or leader is to drive the organization's culture positively and effectively. As a supervisor, you must generate a positive culture that promotes and encourages employees and nurtures human relations. A positive culture creates teamwork, empowerment, and self-directed workers who perform to the best of their abilities (Bakhshandeh, 2009). Culture is not one thing people create; it is generated by teams, businesses, organizations, and communities. Culture is the force that drives expectations based on the organization's core values. “Culture creates expectations and belief behaviors. Behaviors ...