Questions tagged [morale]
Questions relating to developing confidence, enthusiasm, and/or discipline within the workplace.
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How do you incentivise developers without upsetting testers?
Our office is mixed with a dev-to-tester ratio of about 1:1.5 - and we're in a dilemma of providing perks for developers which could be too costly to provide for the entire office. Up to now, we haven'...
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Canceling a project gracefully
I'm a senior developer on an agile project. In that project, I and two other developers are to port an existing software to another target platform. I don't code, I'm mainly responsible for project ...
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How do I improve the working atmosphere in this special case?
I have a huge problem at my workplace for which I can't find a way to solve.
Let me start by describing the job and my coworkers (who are part of the problem).
I am the new leader of a team of three ...
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How to convince the CEO to share some details about firing our previous leader
How should I share my thoughts with our CEO that firing our previous leader without any concrete publicized reason/background (except that the management and the old manager has different view of the ...
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How can we prevent merger panic from becoming an issue that affects the productivity of the staff?
One of my competitors is about to go bankrupt. The owners have proposed me the idea where I could buy their business. I am still discussing the idea with some of the leaders in my company.
The ...
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How can I as non-management improve morale and curb infectious pessimism?
I work in somewhat of a DevOps role with a team of professionals that for the most part are highly skilled, competent and easy to get along with. The biggest problem we face as a group is that recent ...
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Is it unprofessional or a sign of weakness to ask for a pep talk?
If you feel that morale is somewhat low on a team, is it a good idea to ask for a pep talk from a well-respected, team leaders, if you think it would increase morale? Or would there be any negatives ...
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