Leader vs Supervisor

• drago

  30 Apr 00, 17:34

  Basically I feel that 80% of all the officers I have seen are supervisor rather than leader.
  
  To me : Leader are
  1) One who is able to motivate
  2) One who make people work for him willing, without complain.
  3) One when subordinates will go to in times of distress
  4) One whom the subordinates will trust in
  
  Supervisors are
  5) One who get the work done (same as point 2 but does not need the subordinates to work for them willing. They can use whips or anything that I care to obtain their objectives)
  
  To me, most of the officers are just slave drivers (and thus fall into supervisor category). They dun motivate (some dun even bother to know your name. To them, we are just a tool to help them promote.)
• democratic worker

  30 Apr 00, 21:04

  Originally posted by drago:

  To me, most of the officers are just slave drivers (and thus fall into supervisor category). They dun motivate (some dun even bother to know your name. To them, we are just a tool to help them promote.)

  Well said, very very well said. Officiers to me are just people who stoop so low as to only know when to claim credit. When some bad things happened, they push all blames to lower people to answer. That is what happened in my unit. They don't even bother how tired or stress their men are under yet expect everything to be perfect. They hope to attain everything to maximum with the minimum things provided.