As a supervisor, you depend for your own success on the work of others, and you
will be measured by their output and their performance. You will be successful in your
own job only to the degree that your team members allow you to be, and this will depend
on how to manage them. This will become clearer as you explore this article.
Other organizational terms with which you need to become familiar include
exempt employees and nonexempt employees. Hourly employees are considered exempt
employees because they are not exempt from federal and state wage and hour
laws. In other words, they are covered by these laws and are therefore guaranteed a
minimum wage and overtime pay after working 40 hours in a work week. Supervisors
are considered exempt employees; they are not covered by the wage and hour laws
and therefore do not earn overtime pay when certain conditions are met: when they
spend 50 percent or more of their time managing, when they supervise two or more
employees, and under federal law when they are paid $1,000 or more per month (or
more if the state imposes a higher standard).