Patterns of workplace supervisory roles: Experiences of Canadian workers

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This paper explores the incidence of four supervisory duties and several factors influencing the likelihood of having experience with such responsi- bilities in the workplace. Supervisory experiences of working Canadians are investigated through secondary analysis of longitudinal panel data from the Sur- vey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) over a six-year time frame (1996 to 2001). Over this period, a ma- jority reported at least some workplace experience with supervisory roles, with male workers, university-educated workers, and those from management and certain professional occupational sectors exhibiting markedly higher pro- files of supervisory duty experience over time. Two trivariate interactions (university education by occupational sector by supervisory experience, and sex by occupational sector by supervi- sory experience) are identified as impor- tant through multivariate log-linear modelling, and examined further through percentage tables. The strengths of associations between education and supervisory experience, and gender and supervisory experience were mediated to some degree by occupational sector of employment.