Questions tagged [micro-management]
Micromanagement is a style of management where the manager is managing very small details of an employe's day to day (or hour to hour) tasks.
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Camera on me and my computer screen all day [closed]
I work in marketing for a very small business. I also sit at the front desk and deal with walk ins. Every other employee has an office with a door. Since I am up front the camera that is posted is on ...
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How to deal with a sabotaging co-worker?
I've been working in a wonderful multinational product-based company having a great employee friendly casual approach culture and currently reorganized with a new team. Since joining this team, I've ...
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Ask you why it took an hour to get to work? [closed]
I overslept this morning which I know is my own fault and I own that. I’d even accept a write up for it because it’s on me.
But I don’t live anywhere near my place of employment. On a good day it’s a ...
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RE: Internal Transfer Issue / Difficult Boss - Can HR take back a transfer that was supposedly in place?
When I started at this job, I was not given proper training and orientation as promised. Although, I may know and have skills for the position I am in, I know that I still need to learn how they do ...
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How to maintain accountability on scheduling without micromanaging?
See title. Description below.
I am the project leader for a research effort with a small team (< 10 people), with a multi-year schedule. One of the things I do when communicating with my team, ...
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Manager asks questions in an investigative mode
I work as a Lead Engineer and Individual Contributor on a project. Our team consists of an Engineering Manager, a Program Manager, and other engineers. After being with the organization for 7 months, ...
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My new coworker may become my boss, and he is terrible
I work in a team of 5 persons in a medium sized company. This service is new within my company and was formed by taking people from different services. So in my team, the knowledge of our processes, ...
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How to handle a situation where someone asks me to delegate tasks to them and then insists on me micromanaging them through the task?
I recently had a situation where a coworker wanted to help me with a project. They asked me to delegate tasks to them, which I did. However, every time I delegate something to them, they'll come back ...
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I think I am micromanaged. What should I do? [closed]
I've been in a big company for several years and recently had a new manager coming in. He is pretty senior in terms of working years, but he didn't work in big corporations before and I feel this is ...
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Would I be out of line if I ask my Manager what is the purpose of the task tracker? [closed]
I work in the US. On Friday, my Manager sent an email to employees in my department and requested we complete a task tracker for one week. We are to write down the tasks we complete and the time frame ...
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Concerned that a manager is accessing my inbox
We've recently (48 hours) had a minor change in management, and also a minor change in task priority. I've already learned that the new manager (who is not officially managing my team) is a serious ...
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Stuck in my role with a manager who does not give any trainings or benefits or career growth
I am working as a Technical Program Manager in Sales Ops.Due to org restructure, I was moved to Sales Technology team. Ever since I moved into this team, my manager has become insecure and is not ...
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My new manager does not care about employee's well-being
My new manager has taken over the team, where their management style is very authoritarian.
When having a career conversation with her they just mentioned that it is their way of the highway, to the ...
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How to answer an interview question about productivity and disagreeing with your manager?
If the hiring manager asked this question during an interview "If there is something that would improve your productivity, but your manager disagrees with it, should you still do it?"
I ...
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Is is possible to nip a new micromanager in the bud?
My team just changed managers last week. He's started out being very micromanagey - he'll constantly call us to see what we did with the previous 15 minutes and then say that we need to change tasks ...
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Manager loves to micromanage, how to handle it?
I’ve joined a new company two weeks ago, and recently I was told by my current employees in my team that my new manager is a very harsh guy. He fired four people in last year and one of them was the ...
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Have I made a mistake by sharing my personal life with my boss as he has started criticising me based on that?
I work in sales. My boss is a micromanager and trying to change my personal life by adding discipline to it. I am okay with that.
What I am not okay with, is today morning on a meeting call, he has ...
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Desperate for advice dealing with maniacal management [closed]
Summary: I work in that company for 8 years. I want to transfer to another department because my current management has done illegal things that I've documented in emails to them. I think they prevent ...
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Coworker who is also relatively new is very bossy towards me in a micromanaging sort of way [closed]
A couple months ago I started working in a store. The training portion is over. The store recently had a lot of turn over (even for retail). Aside from the manager, the longest employee has been there ...
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Product manager with no technical knowledge is micromanaging engineers to the extent he's not doing his own job... How should I report this?
I'm a lead engineer for a highly technical product, aspects of which cross multiple technical disciplines. From working with him, the PM doesn't know even the very basics about computers but he's ...
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Employee Complaints of “Micromanaging” about New Manager
I recently took over a bigger office and half of my team were recently hired right before I got here. And I also have a new boss now. This location has been struggling for the past few years with ...
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Are daily reports not needed when reporting in bi-weekly meeting?
I am working as a research engineer in a university lab for 32 hours per week via contract, but often work more than that (sometimes up to 50-60 hours) because there is a lot to be done and I really ...
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Micromanaging manager keeps asking "Do you agree?"
I am just going through a very annoying situation and wanted to know how to respond.
Lately due to COVID-19 we all are working from home and my Manager is at the peak of micromanaging since I believe ...
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How do you ask to change teams?
Six months ago I moved to another country to take up a job in a new company. I'm getting a great engineering salary. I'm Principal Developer, and I have 20 years of experience in several languages and ...
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Manager restricting my team from using game room during work hours
I work for a software product company that has casual work culture. There is a game room that has arcade games, a ping pong table and a pool table.
Every once in a while, I and my colleagues play ...
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How do I approach a difficult conversation with a colleague?
I have been tasked to work very closely with a slightly more senior colleague at work, he is pretty much overseeing everything I do at the moment.
I find it very difficult to work with him because he ...
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My company now requires that we ask to go to the bathroom. Is this legal?
I work in a call center in the US. We have call center software that tracks our time in call, between calls, lunches, etc, which management is able to see at any time. We take back-to-back calls all ...
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How involved should a startup's CTO be in the technical details of work done by his engineers?
The short version: My boss / CTO / company founder double checking everything I do and gives me little technical decision-making authority. It's driving me nuts. To what extent is that normal / okay? ...
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Management micromanaging sprints
I work at a smallish company as a software lead. So far I have lead one team for the full duration of the project, and have been managing my current team for about 6 months. While the previous ...
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How to manage a combo of busywork and micromanaging
My job requires equal parts analysis and data display on a map. On a project I send these maps out for review as many as several times a day and incorporate changes requested by the project manager ...
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Client mis-managing my (contractor) work
I'm a newly-minted (~1yr) contractor, providing specialist technical services (Machine Learning). I am on my second job; first one was great (more on that below) and in fact they referred me on to my ...
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Being micromanaged as my 'Greatest Weakness'-- how to tackle and handle during interviews?
At my current workplace, my boss is severely hands-on, so much so that he has practically trained his employees to wait on his decisions and responses for almost everything that they do (while ...
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Dealing with criticism from boss
I've been working at a software development company for the last year and a half, and during my time there, I've contributed to multiple product releases with little to no delays and generally with a ...
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How can I manage freelancers effectively in a startup [closed]
The problem is every time I hire someone from freelancing websites, I find it hard to manage the output or the budget.
example 1 : I hired someone who claimed to be an expert in programming, just to ...
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Balance between improving the system and generating revenue
I'm an online marketer, I'm doing two kind of tasks
1 - tasks that actually generate money
2 - tasks for improving my system, by developing tools, automation...
My problem is sometimes I focus too ...
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How to improve situation where asked to account for work in 15 minute increments
I work in a small company of around 20 people and the manager has recently started sending out emails indicating their desire to micromanage the whole company.
First email:
I want detailed time ...
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Can a employee refuse to work with a particular manager? [closed]
The project I am working on is closing and the employees are moved out to different departments in the same company.
Recently a guy from another department approached me. Later, I came to know that ...
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Inexperienced manager is making our work life miserable [closed]
At work, we have a manager with no prior managerial experience, at least none in the tech world which any of us would consider reasonable. He doesn't even have a manager title, but we're assigned to ...
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How to tell the boss that his "All hands on deck" approach doesn't work?
I'm on a development team with a total of five developers. The owner of my company quite often tells all of us to drop everything we're doing and focus on one singular task. The problem with that is ...
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Am I starting to be micromanaged? [closed]
Came a bit out of the blue:
Line manager is upset I am asking people for work and not going to directly to him. My work load has lightened considerably and have taken a pro-active approach when I am ...
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How not to micromanage? [closed]
There are quite a few questions here on how to deal with a boss who is a micromanager, but I did not see any asked by managers on how to not be one.
A friend of mine has several direct reports. None ...
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What can I do to stop a non-supervisor manager busybody from constantly checking on me?
I have a bit of a weird situation.
I work for a tech subsidiary of a large multinational corporation that employs across all subsidiaries and companies owned a total of around 180-200k employees.
My ...
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Micro managing boss? [closed]
We are a software development team. Our boss wants to do everything by himself. We write and check in code. He goes in and modifies everything. The problem is, he rips out well written, production ...
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When the manager is not responsible [closed]
I have the honor of working with a manager who is not responsible for his actions and decisions. He usually blame others for his mistakes. You might guess that this person meddles in everything, not ...
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Is it ever appropriate to tactfully speak your mind regarding your work supervisor without using inappropriate language?
I'm working in a temp development contract as a front-end developer. During the interview process, I expressed my background as more full-stack to back-end than pure front-end. Despite my honesty ...
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how to handle rant team member and avoid "You don't know team management" [closed]
I have already gone through How to deal with team member openly discrediting me across the company?
How to deal with a team member who keeps making mild belittling insults in front of everyone?
How to ...
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Manager who micromanages and at the same time does not manage [closed]
Situation:
The technical leader left a few months ago, I automatically took over his responsibilities to make sure we have continuity, got a junior worker (REALLY junior, a grad).
As of course I took ...
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Team lost faith in Scrum –how to change that? [closed]
I've always been in favour of communication and working practices that speed up our everyday, so I explained my coordinator about Scrum 2 years ago or so. We finally applied this a year ago, with ...
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How to handle micromanaging coworker [closed]
I read another question on this site about dealing with a micromanaging coworker that got a pretty good answer, so I'm hoping someone can share their expertise and apply it to my circumstances.
I've ...
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How to balance guiding someone vs micromanaging someone?
Recently my manager has made me more of a lead role in helping shape some of the new devs on the team. I have a lot of experience with the codebase they are dealing with and so he sometimes simply ...
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