Questions with this tag relate to situations involving management in the workplace. Either side of the table is valid. Questions from the perspective of the manager, or the perspective of the employee.
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Great CEO with horrible management style
I'm a relatively inexperienced HR professional. I've been with my organization for 1 year and have a situation that I feel very positive about, but am unclear about my next steps.
Here is a little ...
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1answer
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How do I prepare for a meeting with a senior manager about a conflict with my manager?
I have spent all my professional life working as developer (not very long, like 5 years) and during that time I have been a hard working person (or at least I consider myself). My previous boss and I ...
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Management are demanding a commitment I cannot give. How can I handle it? [closed]
I have been working for an Indian outsourcing organization for more than 5 years. My aspiration is to work in the USA. I have valid work permit to work in USA which will expire after 6 months. I have ...
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Manager lied during the interview that he would be my manager [closed]
The following situation has happened to me more than once.
I go to a job interview, a manager says "I will be your manager". I start working and guess what? After just a little while, he installs ...
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12answers
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My facebook wall is bothering some people at work, do they have the right?
In my facebook wall, as everyone else, I post stuff that reflects my opinion about many stuff, selection of jokes, videos, posts..etc is simply representing my thoughts and who I am. Sometimes I talk ...
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1answer
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How can I organize client communications with a business partner? [closed]
I'm in the early stages of running an Internet Marketing company with business partner. We do design, development, SEO and PPC. My partner deals with clients/sales and I take care of ...
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2answers
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Project my query code performance to manager?
I worked on a project that brought the execution time of a query to 18 seconds from 5 minutes earlier. About 100 employees use this query to generate reports and further do their jobs. I am trying to ...
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8answers
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How to act in a meeting when everyone is a manager except me?
Sometimes I join some meetings where everyone is a manager, like department managers to discuss a problem or a situation which needs the joined effort of multiple departments. Anyway I am no manager ...
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I made a commitment I'm not able to fulfill. How can I avoid making commitments I can't keep? [closed]
I have been working for a company where I have a VISA and my management was not able to utilize that VISA and was not willing to allow me to transfer to a position I really wanted within the company. ...
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5answers
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Should an email group include the manager?
We have an "email group" set up for our department whose intended purpose is to provide a way to share information that everyone should know. However, because the manager is included on the list, it ...
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2answers
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boss smokes and colleagues who smoke get insider info
I recently started a new job and my boss is a smoker, so she frequently has smoke breaks together with my other colleagues who are also smokers. During these smoke breaks, they often discuss important ...
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7answers
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How to tell my boss that I do not want to do a task that is too simple for my experience
I have an advanced degree in electronics and a number of years of directly relevant industry experience. Our engineering company has been recently acquired by a larger corporation and my new direct ...
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2answers
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What does senior director mean?
In a sector, e.g. academia, an office in an organization has a director and a similar office in another organization has a senior director. In general, an office has a boss, which can be called by ...
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0answers
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How to handle existing work and poor management? [closed]
I'm in a situation where I'm one of the in house developers for a company that works in the engineering industry. The director of IT is an older guy - he seems to be nice, however, it seems that he ...
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7answers
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Is there an effective personal strategy or methodology to stop bringing work issues home?
In my work environment I interact on a daily basis with people who are not as technically strong as they should be. Who do not have the necessary managerial and administrative skills to run teams or ...
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6answers
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How can I approach career development with a boss who doesn't seem to support this?
I really enjoy my current job. The team is friendly, my manager is friendly, and the work is challenging, interesting, and fulfilling. Because of this, I have no interest in leaving this company or ...
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3answers
379 views
What are my options when I'm intimidated by a new employee? [closed]
I've been working at my company for just over 3 years now and are the longest employee. I have a medical condition which causes me to have an irregular sleeping pattern which causes me to be late for ...
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3answers
773 views
Convincing a technically inexperienced boss to not interfere?
My boss does a few things very well, such as keeping her team happy. Unfortunately, she is not quite as strong with the technical skills relating to the technologies we work with. Her inexperience ...
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5answers
532 views
Are there potential consequences of letting your employer know about your personal projects?
Yesterday, while talking with my boss, I mentioned I am working on a personal project in my free time at home. A senior was sitting nearby and he advised me not to tell the boss such things.
What ...
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4answers
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13% attrition rate per month in new hires - How to make senior management see the problem and to raise a grievance after I have left
Context: the technical development staff stands at 31 individuals, of which I am the ScrumMaster/Development manager responsible 3 cross functional teams of 5 people in each team. Over the last year ...
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7answers
434 views
Should I propose a big change as a newcomer?
I have been working in the IT department of a (relatively) small company for 2 months.
Recently the boss of another department (who is a former developer) told me that it would be nice if we started ...
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1answer
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Recomend some reading material / learning for a new Manager [closed]
Can anyone recomend some good reading material (books / blogs / courses / videos) for someone in a technical IT role who is looking to moving up to managing a small, distributed team of IT people ?
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How can I fire an incompetent friend?
I've seen similar questions to this, but I feel this has sufficient and subtle differences that warrant a separate discussion.
As part of a University Project, myself and two other Software ...
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2answers
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How to deal with a colleague trying to steal my password?
Like Windows, Mac has a feature that allows users to remotely login to their system from another system. Yesterday, my coolleague asked me to remotely login to my Mac using his system. I did just that ...
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9answers
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How can we protest a deadline that is too short?
Our Project manager made a project's presentation and assigned it to our team. The amount of work was estimated at 3 weeks.
Our team members discussed the project and we calculated that the amount ...
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2answers
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How to deal with discouraging nature of a supervisor causing a promising intern to leave?
We employed in our startup, an intern who is in his final year engineering, for 6 months internship. During the first month I used to interact with him regularly, but for the past 2 months I could not ...
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5answers
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How to go about firing a family member…?
To cut a long story short, my company is set up like this:
51% is mine, the programmer
39% is my wife's, the artist
10% is my father's, who helped set up the company
However, my wife has only been ...
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2answers
645 views
How do I deal with a boss who has his “head in the clouds”?
Working with our boss has always been difficult but it got worse in the last weeks.
It seems he is not paying attention to anything we do or say.
Here is just one example. A few days ago a colleague ...
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8answers
1k views
Disagreeing with boss over personal topics when socializing
Is it bad practice to disagree with a boss on personal opinions, in the context of talking about things for fun? For example, if a boss is talking about how much corruption is in the Catholic Church ...
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3answers
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Should I have input to an appraisal for an employee who no longer works for me?
For about four months I managed a small technical project, although my job title remained that of a person in a technical role. This was the first time I managed a project with this employer, and I ...
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5answers
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Constructive feedback on Trust to Management
There are quite a few articles trying to emphasize and define Organizational trust. What is a good way to tell your boss that you are losing trust in him/her/them?
Articles - huffingtonpost, ...
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My boss started sending me IMs to my private account. How should I deal with this?
I few days ago my boss started to send me instant messages to my private phone on my private account. He sends me error-messages and screenshots from customers.
I fully understand this may be his ...
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Job Growth/Being Exploited? [closed]
I have a current problem on determining whether my employer is exploiting me. This is my first job out of college with a Computer Science BS and I deliberately chose this job despite to lower pay ...
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How should I approach a 'One on One' with my boss's manager when there are issues with the project?
Here is my problem. I have recently shifted job and I am mainly into computer programming. We work in a framework which is almost 75-80% complete. And I have been given a task to add something more to ...
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Told my boss I do not like the work, but no action for weeks what else can I do?
It's been over a year and a half since I took this new job. Couple of months back I mentioned (politely but firm) to my boss that I want to try something else (I gave specifics regarding the ...
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3answers
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How to deal with a difficult coworker having management support? [closed]
I have a coworker who does the following.
All day long he demands to know (10-15 times per day) why I coded some feature one way or another. He insists there is a right way of doing things and that ...
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3answers
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SharePoint Consultant just writing Excel Macros [closed]
I am an experienced SharePoint Consultant/Contractor with a very solid technical background and excellent refrences. In Decemeber last year, I accepted a 6 month contract of "SharePoint Developer" in ...
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2answers
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How can I tell my boss that the solution he wants is impractical?
My boss asked me if I have an idea for a solution to a problem he is facing. I've determined that this can not be achieved without having negative effects, so we would need an alternative approach.
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4answers
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How to motivate your boss to let you spend time on tasks that won't generate any immediate revenue, but will pay off in the future?
A while ago my company started a blog. Only a few articles have been released until now, all working hours being focused on lucrative stuff. And that's fine, as a start-up company it's no mystery that ...
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How can I get management to hold other employees accountable for their actions? [closed]
I'm in an environment where I feel 15% of the team is doing 85% of the overall work. There is a lot of "dead weight" that tends to cause more issues then adding to the company's profit margin. My ...
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5answers
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Too aggresive project estimation, what are my alternatives? [closed]
Our IT Managers give me a project and says estimate it, how long will it take to get it done. I say well 2 days or more. He think it can be done in 2 hours. Now the project is basically about adding ...
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2answers
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How can I tell, during an interview, that my potential boss is a poor communicator?
A few months ago, the founder of a start-up company interviewed me for a job. During the interview I asked him several questions about the company, their product, the market they were aiming etc. None ...
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1answer
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How do I create the most optimal incentive schemes? [closed]
My company is split into two teams: sales and products. Sales has the responsibility for creating leads, follow ups, and closing a sale. Product is responsible for learning and teaching everything ...
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4answers
471 views
How can I convince my boss that we need better machines? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I request new equipment for the office?
I'm working in a small company (6 employees) where all of us are using very outdated machines. The PC I am using is bought ...
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4answers
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How to provide negative review of manager in “360 degree” feedback?
At my workplace, in addition to the traditional annual performance review, there also another process called "the 360" where each employee is assessed also by their subordinates and peers.
I will be ...
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4answers
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How do I cheer up the team after someone is fired?
I never know how to deal with the situation, and I could use some professional pointers. We are a small company and a tight-knit team. Generally, our team is full of soft-spoken, kind-hearted folks. ...
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4answers
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Having conflict with my own manager
So here is the scene:
My manager got hired in my company 2 months ago (full time). Before that he came here as a consultant. The company he came from, I used to work over there until I got laid off. ...
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2answers
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What can I do in my current non-manager role to prepare for a new career as a manager?
This is sort of difficult to explain...
I am currently a software engineer, and have been for about 10 years. I would like my next job to be the start of a new career in management. I have given ...
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6answers
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How can I manage a project without authority to manage some of the people involved in the project?
I am currently in charge of the development and maintenance of all current and new web applications for the company I work for. I report directly to the president and VP of the company because ...
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6answers
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Delegation tasks by stewardship to someone who is reactive
I have, in my team, someone who is very reactive-- someone who can't do anything on his own, someone who needs explicit instruction in carrying out a task. In the parlance of Steven Covey, the way I ...
