Executive Summary

Topic : Supervisors, Subordinates and Coworkerssupervisors subordinates and co-workers

Overview

The article described on the Managing Relationship in the Workplace. The article describe in the different ways in which the supervisors have communicated with their subordinates, or direct reports in the workplace.

Most formal organizations were structured using the classical approach to organizing, which positioned supervisors at the “top” of an organization overseeing direct reports. The main elements of the classical approach to organizing included top-down communication, hierarchy and centralized power.

Top-down communication is when supervisors speak to their employees without expecting and/or desiring a communicative response. Many organization resisted this practice because the one-way flow of communication can lead to problems such as misinformation, lack of information, dissatisfaction, and apathy. Supervisors encourage their employees often want to influence others, use their skills and identify with work and workplaces that they consider to be meaningful.

The other approach is hierarchy which is when individuals are organized based on position, rank and authority and the connections among their own and others organizational roles can be displayed visually via an organizational chart. This approach is suitable for the organization that only have fewer levels ( i.e. where the less distance between the top and bottom levels of the chart ). The hierarchy is flatter.

A third classical approach is centralized power, meaning that most of the power in the organization is centralized with management rather than spread out among the group. The power and controlled are simple, managers overtly influence the everyday activities of their workers, which leaves the workers with little autonomy. Individual act in the interests of