Questions tagged [management]
For questions about the tools and practices of management, including business management, project management, performance management and other management disciplines in the workplace.
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Can I put a killed project on my resume? [duplicate]
Over the past year, I had been gradually working on a project to set up a locally-hosted bug tracker for use within the company. It was essentially complete within a few months, but finishing touches ...
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Can an employer require an employee to lose weight if the employees size alone, rather than any other issue becomes problematic?
I admit this not a practical situation I'm currently facing, nonetheless I've been wondering about this for quite a long time already.
Salad Story is a food chain somewhat similar to Subway, except ...
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Is it inappropriate to tell my boss that "baby talk" is unprofessional?
My boss is a great guy. Probably my favorite boss I've ever had, both professionally and personally. There is one thing that's very strange about him. At work, he often uses "baby-talk" ...
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change in work situation : Mishandled a incompetent employee [duplicate]
I am a manager in two person office in Asia Pacific (APAC), which is part of a global company that has offices all around the world. I recruited another person so that in my absence support could be ...
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How to communicate a problem with a speaker Info. form that got disabled after I sent it to the speakers via email professionally?
I am organizing a virtual conference, and I sent the speakers a form done on jotform to collect their info for the talk. Unfortuantely, the form got disabled by the company by a mistske and I ...
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How to proceed when manager never has time to talk about salary review
At the company I am currently working we are expected to have a yearly salary review. In order to schedule a meeting with my manager to discuss this I have sent several emails/chats. He reads all of ...
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How do I make agile process more comfortable for introverts?
This article "Agile vs Introverts" resonates with me a lot. To quote,
I had this thought: most of the “Agile” methodologies and tools are
invented by extroverts ...
Introverts are not ...
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How to get better at taking constructive criticism
I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I think I can be overly sensitive and take things too personally.
One example was I forwarded an email to someone I work with. I didn't know their account was ...
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Duplicate project activities in corporate R&D
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work for a large corporate providing HW/SW that often lacks alignment between sites across the world.
In the past three years I was fortunate enough to be allocated to a corporate project where we ...
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Dealing with your ideas not being taken into account
I work as a software engineer in a firm that could be described as "an accounting firm that also develops software".
In my day-to-day work, I notice there's some things that are done by hand,...
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How do I explain to my boss that I can't do everything with a smaller budget?
Read my post history if you'd like more context. Long story short, the relevant part is that we're a profitable company.
I received my 2023 budget and it's the same as last year despite vendor ...
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How do you handle a coworker who does not know how to work in a team? [closed]
I've been seven months in a small company of thirty people, I work with another guy, who also happens to be one of the first employees of the company, in the same project.
This guy does not use the ...
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How to convince my overseas manager that my new hire is incompetent?
I am a manager in two person office in Asia Pacific (APAC), which is part of a global company that has offices all around the world. I recruited another person so that in my absence support could be ...
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Why spend money on improving a product, if the customer is willing to pay the same for a worse product
The company works on website, for each hour worked on the website the customer gets billed 1 hour.
There are lots of things that can be optimized in the company (beter pipelines, tools and writing ...
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What is the most appropriate course of action for management to address an employee's disruptive behavior with food?
I manage a team at a large tech firm. One of the individuals on the other team (not my direct report) has been bringing in dozens of boxes of donuts to the office every day and insists on sharing them ...
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Should I be concerned that one of my direct reports still has one to one meetings with my manager after I was promoted?
A few months ago, I was promoted to team leader for a small team of 3 (including myself).
Before my promotion, me and the rest of the team reported to the person who is now my line manager, and had ...
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Want to grow from technical role to management role with no path ahead [closed]
I've been in technical roles as an engineer working in R&D for a couple companies for many years. During the pandemic I unofficially drifted away from more technical tasks to more of a project ...
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How do I ensure a project I'm interviewing with is managed by a flexible 'agile' managment style?
I've identified a few things I need in a contract to be a good fit for me, and one of those is a flexible management. I want a team and management that doesn't micro manage, is capable of adjusting ...
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How to avoid inappropriate questions during town halls?
I recently took over managing an organization in a mid-size company. From what people have told me, the organization felt really intimidated asking questions to my predecessor. To fix this, I've ...
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Given time off then it was taken back although the company voluntarily give us the time off
I work at an international medical facility in VA for a sub contractor business.
During Christmas, the facility shuts down from about the 21st of December until about the 3rd of January. When the ...
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How do I get my boss to spend more time with me and less time with my direct reports?
My boss has many direct reports. He has so many, that our one-on-one meetings are only every other week. As it turns out, he's not only meeting with his direct reports, but select individuals ...
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How to manage repetitive no-work or no progress with some of your teammates or employee? [closed]
Here are a couple of things about myself:
I'm a co-founder and joined the start-up after 1 year.
I have real SWE, Architecture and management experience in many other start-ups in Silicon Valley.
I ...
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Announced a company event: now people are starting to slack off, What should I do?
I have a very, very small company. About 90% of the product is ready to go. The launch of the product is slated to go up next month on the company's anniversary that is also my birthday. Now everyone ...
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Dealing with people that point out mistakes in public
I'm leading a new department at a new company I've been there for a couple months. I have someone who used to do some of the duties in that department. This person seems to find ways to call me out on ...
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Being the only receptionist, is it my job to find coverage for my PTO? [closed]
I am the only receptionist at my branch.
When I want to take time off, my supervisor has me ask the gals in other departments if they can cover.
It is such a task, especially if nobody wants to cover. ...
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Received a 'behavior reminder' from manager. Not sure if it was just me or something she sent to the whole team
I recently received an email from my manager about a "professional behavior reminder". It's very vague stating "Please remember to dress professionally and not speak negatively about ...
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Fighting for leadership
I'm a new leader to a company and for the company a new department. I'm trying to establish myself as a leader of the department. Before me there was another person in another department managing the ...
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How to tell VP that his presence makes people uncomfortable?
I am a line manager for a group of 8 software developers. Our team is great, and everybody is usually very happy and cheerful.
A couple times a month, my boss (the VP) comes into the office to check ...
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Struggling to motivate new employee
I currently have a direct report who I'm struggling with. He has some good attributes, but is not really stepping up to the level we expected of him when we hired him and when he was in onboarding.
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Transitioning from specialist to manager role
I have recently transitioned from an individual contributor at senior scientist level to a team lead role, where the first task has been to build my own team from scratch. It has been an interesting ...
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How to refuse a business trip due to low budget
My boss wants me to take a business trip to meet some team members. This business trip has no other value than just hanging out in person. The given budget for the accommodation would get me a hostel-...
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How to effectively communicate feelings of being undermanaged?
I'm working for a "flat" tech company of roughly 50 people. I work with several project managers, but there's no one whose responsibility is to manage me. Despite being billed as flat and ...
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Given high-responsibility project completely unrelated to my expertise [closed]
I work for a local company (UK-based) and am becoming increasingly concerned about a project that has been assigned to me, aswell as some of those in charge.
To keep my identity a secret, I’ll refer ...
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Employer made me redundant, then retracted the notice after realising that I'm about to start on a new project
The company I work for called me into a meeting out of the blue last Friday, notifying me that they do not have any work they foresee me being able to do in the next 3 months and were terminating me ...
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What do I do when all my bosses are inept? [closed]
Every BOSS I had was inept ? How do I change this ?
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Why is personnel management decision-making so different to that in other functions?
I don't want to sound cynical and I am sure that selfish decision criteria exist in other functions than HR. Yet I do find that, in general, personnel selection decisions tend to be quite different in ...
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How to help a dev, who is otherwise good, improve the speed at which they work?
I work as the lead dev on a small team. I manage 3-4 devs.
I don't have any issues with this particular dev apart from that given their level they should be completing tasks faster. This isn't just my ...
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Handling Protective Overworked Employee
I am a middle manager at a company and we have a developer who works on our site. He does not report to me. He is overworked and upper management doesn't want to hire someone to help him, but at the ...
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Nearly Perfect Offer, Except for Title
I'm about to receive an offer that is quite aligned with my experience, and the pay is excellent. However, I'm concerned about the implications of the title change based on my career trajectory.
At my ...
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Interpreting a negative self-evaluation of a high performer
I have a direct report that I consider to be not only my best performer, but one of the best performers in my entire organization.
Recently, our organization decided to implement a detailed self-...
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Negotiating salary tactics
Suppose a person has been at a company for 4 years and hadn't received a pay increase.
What is the best way for this person to negotiate for a higher salary? Ask his boss directly?
Should the person ...
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As a manager, would it be wrong to create secret PTO so that I can keep my star employees?
I work for a large corporation that has really inane rules about PTO (Paid Time Off). For example:
We don't get a ton to start with, and if you don't use all of it, at the end of the year it goes ...
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Please help! Employer coerced me signing a backdated commission agreement, threatening to withhold earned commissions if I didn’t. What can I do? [closed]
My corporate organization is a mess. Here is the high level:
4 commission agreement changes in a year
I’m the top salesperson
They’ve underpaid my commissions multiple times, I’m patient with them ...
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How can I learn to lead at the client as a mid-level software developer in the workplace?
I was externally hired by a company to help them with software development. All people at the client are software developers too. I was asked to lead them, but I don't know how. I'm quite introverted, ...
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How to best deal with a devious work colleague that is constantly undermining my role?
In my current role, I am responsible for managing several teams, for where I am accountable for their performance and how they work together to deliver work. I am the scrum master.
In one team I have ...
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How do you foster collaboration between foundation/service and product engineering teams?
Recently joined a company where the engineering teams are broken down by foundation teams and product engineering teams. The charter for the foundation team is to build products that are reusable by ...
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Employees' Engagement in Virtual Meetings
We are a growing company with 12 employees. We all work virtually and meet in the office once a month or two. Office meetings are efficient compared to virtual meetings, but as everyone is working in ...
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What do you use for personal note-taking at work? [closed]
I want to transition away from using my handwritten notebook to maintain personal note-taking and record keeping for projects, meetings, and just my progress notes/thoughts on things.
Main problems ...
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How to deal with new manager that humiliates a team member (me and occasionally others) almost daily
There is a new manager in my company that has been put in charge of a pretty new project. Company culture is generally good, supportive, and empathetic.
The new manager seemed to be that way in the ...
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Fighting back being thrown under the bus
I work for a small company, and I've recently discovered that while talking to the big boss my manager has wrongly blamed me for some issues that delayed our product.
Although I can understand that ...
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