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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How to build reputation back
I am currently working as an intern, and was allocated to work on a big project. I was enjoying the work.
We interns have to report to senior most managers as to what we are working on with mentors. I ...
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How should I manage a significantly more experienced technical employee?
For my job for the foreseeable future I will be managing someone else. They are about thirty years older than me, quite experienced technically, and will be doing technical tasks at my direction, and ...
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How do I handle/confront an employee who is cheating in an Office competition?
I was recently promoted to a middle management position at my office where I have about a half floor of employees working under me.
As part of a company health initiative, I decided to co-host a month-...
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My boss has unfair attitude to my colleague
I work in R&D company. I have a colleague (name him B) who was given a relatively hard and tedious task with somewhat unclear requirements. He was doing his best to accomplish it, even working on ...
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People I manage earn more than me, how to approach this with my bosses
I was promoted a year ago as a manager. I was given the job without seeing the job spec or knowing what the salary was, but I really wanted the position so I took it without questioning my boss. I ...
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My report’s job has changed leading to more management involvement - now I am being accused of micromanagment
Our company has recently gone through a change of direction and my reports have had a change of job role that I am not sure they are happy with. I have tried to reassure them that this a learning ...
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How to convince management that not all software tools should be internally made?
I work at a technology company where we have around 10 programming-capable people. For some reason our management thinks that we should create all the internal tools ourself. By this I mean ERP, ...
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Boss keeps restricting my work
TL;DR bold text is the important bits.
I work at a small company (<20 people) and I've noticed what appears to be a gradual worsening of favor with my boss. I do programming work primarily now but ...
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Having trouble adjusting to new manager's communication style. Thinking of quitting
I have been working a part time job for several years. From the feedback I have been getting, I have been doing it well. Recently I got a new manager. The former manager was really great. I found that ...
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Does occupational / workplace psychology have a name for local managers using the "Barnum Effect"
The Barnum effect is when astrologers, tarot readers etc statements about your personality or your future that you think is specific to you but in fact are very general and apply to almost anyone just ...
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Senior engineer mispronounces words and misuses idioms/phrases
Context - I work with a senior engineer on an opensource project. In some vague sense, on this OSS project, he reports to me.
He recently started a new job at a startup and also started taking on more ...
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As the Big Boss does not trust the PM or myself and the project may be in jeopardy, how can we improve the situation?
TL;DR: The Department Director doesn't trust/believe myself or the Program Manager and is actively demeaning (though possibly out of ignorance rather than true malice), and this is putting the project ...
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Former job laptop [closed]
I worked part time for business but left over a year ago. During my time there, my former employer offered to purchase a laptop for me that I could use for that job as well as for my main job. I even ...
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What to do to rescue a software project when the only ex‑remote community manager goes rogue? [closed]
We trusted someone working under a pseudonym to manage our social medias. After 8 months he asked for a rise of over $30,000 in order to continue : for this reason and other minor ones, we let him go ...
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How to talk to manager to assign a task to someone else
I am working on a task at a software company for two weeks. Now I realize that one of the team members who guide me is too slow or confusing. I am unable to make much progress after a certain amount ...
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Resigned, .manager announced my new employer to all without permission
I'm in UK and I’ve just resigned as I’ve accepted a new role at a direct competitor (a better package). I have two questions I'm hiding for help on.
I asked my manager what to do next when handing in ...
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How to handle project when there are too many requests for quick development?
Our company Y has various partnerships with other companies to sell products. However, Y is now developing its own application to sell products. Unfortunately, even before developing the product, they ...
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Unequal pay for web and app developers with the same experience - How should I approach my boss?
I recently got a great opportunity to work at an American company that sponsors visas. I am currently a web front-end developer, and there are two other developers on the team. One is an iOS developer,...
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Do new responsibilites mean new job title or should this be only a remark in ones CV?
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I am a software engineer, which is also the official job title I applied for. I got some certifications which officially enables me to train apprentices. On my CV those certifications ...
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Accused of leaving early and I proved I didn't. What kind of response would be reasonable from management?
I have a part time job where I go to different retail stores to promote and demonstrate various products. I do it for the extra money and because I enjoy it. My manager recently informed me that a ...
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My direct reports bypassing me and leadership allows it
I am facing sort of a issue (not major problem though). Couple of my direct reports bypasses me sometimes and directly goes to my boss say for eg: My Laptop is not working, need to escalate, when will ...
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Employee seems to be overwhelmed and delegating work to others [closed]
On multiple occasions, I am noticing that an employee is delegating work to others that should technically be his responsibility, rather than asking his direct supervisor for help.
I think that he may ...
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Software Engineering Manager Roadmaps [closed]
3.5 weeks into a new job & company as software engineering manager I was asked to create a road map for the year. they are new to doing agile/scrum. I still am learning the business/systems are. ...
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Is it the manager's job or the employee's job to set expectations?
Who should set work expectations / goals? Employee or Manager?
Hoping some managers out there can weigh in.
I recently had a performance review that was lacking in some categories and was surprised as ...
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How to handle accountability for mistakes in a team as a manager?
I currently have a position as a team leader inside a company (20-30 employees) who offer a service while using internal software. My team is of 5 developers and a product manager, and our main ...
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What does "Chief Engineer Emeritus" means?
Recently I've came across a few profiles on LinkedIn with title as "Chief Engineer Emeritus".
What does Chief Engineer Emeritus means in an organization ?
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How should Directors deal with an overbearing branch Manager?
Talking about a branch manager who gets great pipeline and conversions, the numbers all look right, but employee turnover is very high.
His high standard for his staff, requiring high work ethic and ...
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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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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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