The first cultural change was learning to trust the decision-making power of supervisors and managers.
Among other things, the change would significantly expand the powers of the supervisor and town board, including allowing them to replace department heads with appointed commissioners who are more beholden to the supervisor's agenda, Mr. Cardinale said.
The powers of Brčko's international supervisor – who in theory could block laws and introduce new ones – were frozen in 2012, part of a general trend for the international community to have a decreasing role in Bosnia.
The board of supervisors has the power and function to supervise the board of directors and managers.
Among elective bodies, the most powerful one is the County Board of Supervisors, a five-member panel with vast executive, legislative, and (in planning matters) quasi-judicial powers.
But because of them, Mr. Merrick wields more than twice the voting power that he otherwise would on the Livingston County Board of Supervisors.
In an earlier contribution, Boyer and Ponce (2012) analyze whether banking supervision responsibilities should be concentrated in the hands of a single supervisor, showing that splitting supervisory powers among different supervisors is a superior arrangement in terms of welfare when the capture of supervisors by bankers is a concern.
Importantly, the new E.U.-level supervisory authority will have binding-decision powers in the case of disagreement between the home and host state supervisors, including within colleges of supervisors.
We find that splitting supervisory powers among different supervisors is a superior arrangement in terms of social welfare to concentrating them in a single supervisor when the capture of supervisors by bankers is a concern.
In New York City, by contrast, there are separate unions for captains and for other correction officers, and their interests do not necessarily converge, particularly on questions of how much power supervisors should wield over their subordinates.
