Direct Supervisor Roles

Roles of supervisor The direct supervisor is the individual who oversees the service activities and provides frontline staff with constant direction, assistance, and feedback. Support from supervisors may build nurse commitment. As organizational representatives, supervisors who strive to create favorable job conditions are likely to experience a reciprocal concern for the organizational wellbeing from nurses. In this way, the supervisors’ discretionary effort may be rewarded with engaged and productive nurses (Fu, 2016).

The supervisor and the supervisee both share responsibility for carrying out their role in the collaborative process. The activities of supervision are captured by three primary domains; administrative,
The authoritative style is related to the supervisor’s assertiveness regarding supervised actions. This style is divided into three roles: prescriptive (the supervisor gives advice directly to the supervised and explicitly directs their behavior), informative (the supervisor gives information and instruction to the supervised) and confrontational (the supervisor gives immediate feedback) and the facilitator style is related to gradual information provided to the supervised. This style is divided into three roles: cathartic (the supervisor appreciates the supervisee to express the emotions, thereby reducing the tension of supervised); Catalytic (the supervisor encourages the supervisee to reflect on certain areas or significant experiences, by stimulating to be self-directed and reflective); support (the supervisor tends to emphasize the personal dimensions and to promote security of the supervised (Diogo et al.,
The increasing costs of health care, an aging population, growing sophistication of technology, and emergence of new diseases have created a greater burden on hospitals and the nurses. On the front-line of this dynamic landscape; the nursing professionals must deal with increased demands, improving healthcare quality and reducing cost, whilst at the same time nurses must cope effectively with workplace stress, exhaustion and burnout (Othman, et al., 2014). Nurses should engage in favorable attitude in the form of work engagement to deliver quality care (Othman and Nasurdin,