The Chronicle, 3/31/2005: How Underlings Can Influence a Nonprofit Supervisor's Job Performance

The Chronicle, 3/31/2005: How Underlings Can Influence a Nonprofit Supervisor's Job Performance: "How Underlings Can Influence a Nonprofit Supervisor's Job Performance
By Rebecca Gardyn
Only eight months after taking a job overseeing a small Atlanta charity's after-school programs,
Ian North was already burning out.
The intense workload was weighing him down, but even more frustrating was having a supervisor who seemed unsupportive of his efforts.
'Sometimes he would give me a task and just leave me alone to figure out how to get it done,' Mr. North says. 'He would come by and ask 'how's it going?' but then proceed to check his cell-phone messages five times during the course of our conversation. I didn't feel like I had the support I needed. I almost quit.'"