My experiance at work is that we all have a goal (do our job) and the supervisor can either put road blocks up to prevent our job from running smoothly or he can smooth the way to make it easier to acomplish our mission (job)..and we have to all be on the same page to do that. Does that make us a team? yes, because we are all after the end goal.
I had a new employee come to me and tell me that he just couldn't get the hang of the routine that another trainer set up for him and that he was struggling with his work load and I asked him what he would change to make it easier to him and he told me what he felt he could do to acomplish his work. Then I asked him "what is the bottom line?" and he answerd "to get the work done"
It doesn't matter what road you take to get the job done it is more important to get there.