Perhaps employees should not expect all of this from their leaders-but nevertheless many of them do-and the supervisor must deal with these expectations.4
Supervisors have so many different expectations from their subordinates and so many different obligations toward them that it would be difficult to cover all of them. Differences in subordinates, jobs, work organizations, and cultures are among the many different factors that influence which responsibilities supervisors have toward their subordinates. A boss in charge of a group of previously unemployed trainees would have to provide the subordinates more emotional support than would a boss in charge of a group of experienced dress cutters. A representative sample of supervisory responsibility toward subordinates is as follows: