Questions tagged [morale]
Questions relating to developing confidence, enthusiasm, and/or discipline within the workplace.
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My company treated me poorly and now it's affecting my work, should I speak to my manager about it?
I've been working at my company for about 3 years now. A job in another department came up, and it was the same role I have now but one step up in the hierarchy, so I applied for it.
I did the ...
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How do I deal with Coworker that revealed He/She was trans and expected people to rejoice?
I am a TeamLeader/Manager, the company is medium, I manage about 12 people along with coding my own stuff.
This morning subordinate X, walked into the middle of our offices (Open space) and asked for ...
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How to deal with an unproductive colleague ( supposedly due to medication)?
I work in a medium-sized company in Germany, which is part of a fairly large corporation. In my department there are two teams in one office space. We all get along very well, but recently the mood is ...
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How to deal with an outside-of-work dinner that reveals demoralised/unhappy employees
I recently went out with some colleagues and former colleagues for dinner.
During this dinner some current colleagues expressed a lack of confidence in technical leaders and general business vision. ...
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Resentment towards employer over reduced pay
Background: I work as a mechanical engineer at a startup in India.
So basically during the past year, my employer has reduced my pay during lock-down periods by up to 50% while still having me work ...
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"Ace" engineer deliberately broke his own toe to avoid training replacements during notice period [closed]
I work at a large company that, unfortunately, has a recurring habit of hiring small armies of under-trained and under-skilled junior engineers that don't get much done (mostly due to our lack of ...
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What's the best way to communicate 'you get a bonus but no raise this year' to employee?
I just had a meeting with the company's board, and we concluded that we would give out a bonus, but no pay raises this year. Last year was tough; the business was roughly 30% in the red. I think most ...
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Managers constant feelings of inadequacy and self-deprecation are affecting his managerial skills
I work for a tech company and my manager has become more and more insecure around his abilities and constantly vocalizes how he doesn't feel like he's carrying his weight nor that he understands much ...
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Not passing the PIP - still will be eligible for UI?
I recently took a position and started this new job and the only reason I left my previous employer was because this was supposed to be the promotional opportunity that I was searching for. ...
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Niche supplier taking advantage of their position to be rude to my team
I'm leading a project that involves purchase and installation of some extremely specialized equipment. Within this market there are only a 3-4 players worldwide and only 1 that operates in my country....
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What are some strategies to maintain morale and productivity after massive layoffs?
In what was perhaps a textbook example of bad optics, our company announced layoffs recently. To make things worse, the environment was such that many of us were personal friends as well as colleagues....
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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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CEO says not to expect pay increases unless you do something really exceptional. Is this counter-productive?
Our CEO has recently said we should not expect pay increases (above the usual yearly inflation adjustment) unless you're an overachiever or do something really exceptional. Is this counter-productive ...
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Coworkers accusing me of "cheating" for working more efficiently
I'm a CAD drafter. We have quotas of drawings to get done each day, usually 5/day with the correct forms attached with them. Each one would regularly take around 1.5-2 hours at a normal pace, so to ...
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Should I provide my employee company-paid training/conferences for non-work-related skills?
I am a manager of a software developer whom I really want to retain because he is a high performer and a joy to work with.
In our 1:1 meetings, he has expressed the desire to learn a skill which is ...
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Junior peer (I'm a senior but not a 'line manager') who's continually convinced that we're all about to be laid off etc and keeps voicing it
My team/role:
I'm part of a team of 6 (1 senior (myself) 3 'standard' and 2 junior/trainee) that would broadly be described as "data analysts" and we report to a 'Analytics Manager'. Our everyday ...
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I heavily skewed the data by repeatedly submitting the same anonymous workplace survey and the CEO is reacting, how do I come clean? [closed]
The company sent out an anonymous survey to everyone. I figured out by clearing my browser history I could fill out the survey multiple times. So I did that to make sure my feelings carried more ...
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Determining why an employee who is very quiet seems to be unhappy
I manage a team of software developers. I have an employee who is unusually antisocial. It's not just that he's quiet, he won't even nod to you if you pass him in the hall. On the other hand, he is ...
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Why would company (decision makers) wait for someone to retire, rather than lay them off, when their role is no longer needed?
I'm asking about companies'/managers' reasoning in general, rather than about the policy of a specific company. This is something I've come across a number of times, in/about various different ...
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Dating a Former Employee
I'm a senior, C level executive at a relatively small company (~75 employees). A while ago, I became very close to a direct report. We began spending more time together outside of work; first in ...
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Loved my work place now I kinda Hate it - Is it time to leave? Would it hurt my carrer if I stay? [closed]
To start I work in a multinational company which owns a bunch of other small companies in such a way they only serve one purpose, like IT. I started as a Trainee on the corporate finance department, ...
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I'm in charge of equipment buying but no one's ever happy with what I choose. How to fix this? [closed]
I have several hats at work - I'm primarily a software developer but I also have to do Linux sysadmin, Windows sysadmin, tech support (like changing printer ink, plugging in cables for people, etc), ...
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How to convince HR to let my star employee work from home?
We recently got a new CEO and he took away everyone's ability to work remotely, including that of my most productive team member. As you can guess, everyone's productivity has dropped considerably, ...
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How do I get my brother/coworker to do his work?
Just as a background, my brother lives with me. I have my own business but I also contract for another company that he works with me for. He works with me/at my direction for my own personal business, ...
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How to deal with a politically opinionated coworker
I'm looking for guidance on an issue that's been dividing my team, which is composed of 24 techie 20-somethings, in a very laissez-faire office with various inclinations all over the political and ...
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Team building events vs. presents
In our region it is often the case, that you get a christmas present from your company to appreciate for the work one has done.
That was also the case in our company, but since the company has new ...
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Young professional co-worker thinks she is not performing enough
I am a young professional with around six months of software engineering experience.
I work with a young girl who is writing her bachelor's thesis in my company.
We get along well, and I always see ...
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How to motivate team to be proactive on daily scrum?
My question is related to this one but it is not the same actually.
The context is the following: I'm the new manager of a new team, with 2 technical senior members. The rest of the team is new.
We'...
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Does taking away morale factors result in a permanent reduction in work satisfaction [closed]
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask, sorry in advance!
I'm having a discussions with a more fiscally conservative colleague about how taking away some perks will affect morale and ...
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How should I address a popular team member leaving?
I had a "go to" guy quit my team. This guy always came up with new frameworks, technology, and all engineering stuff. Anyway, he did not really knew about these tech stack and always over engineered ...
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How to deal with manager who keep leading project into wrong directions?
My current situation is as follow:
i work in a software company, mainly focus on embedded system. i moved into current company in 2016 and started as fresh-man at division X.
The current project was ...
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Dealing with demotivation due to difficult project even though performance is fine [closed]
I am a back-end(PHP/Symfony) developer in a company.
At the moment, I have a drop in my motivation that results in procrastinating during my work hours, getting anxious and having a low morale. Stress ...
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How can a non-manager boost peer morale?
My employer has been through a lot over the last year and a half -- corporate restructuring, merger, and resulting chaos (which we hope is temporary, but you never know). My team has lost about half ...
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Dealing with a slow moving project as a professional researcher
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I have an undergraduate degree and I'm working as a medical researcher in a research lab, affiliated with a University. I've done very little since being employed, due to problems such as:
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Resignation - Is it fair for an employer to delay communicating about me leaving my company? [duplicate]
I've been with my company for 15 years and have just resigned b/c I'm moving to another city. I provided them with two months notice. My employer wants to delay announcing my departure to staff by ...
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Employees wanting salary increases from survey
A recent survey was done for our entire company on employee satisfaction and engagement. My organization scored pretty low (about 30th percentile for the firm). The biggest complaint was that ...
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How should I deal with a subordinate who keeps complaining that others in the company give him no credit for his work?
I'm the boss of a team and one member of the team does notably outstanding work. However no matter how much I recognise his hard work, others in the company ignore the quality of his work and the ...
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Should I send an email to my manager regarding low employee morale? [closed]
I've been working at company XYZ as a web developer in New York for a few years now. The company has steadily declined and I feel obligated to say something to my manager, the owner of XYZ.
XYZ is a ...
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If One's Boss is Negligent to their Duties and Company Policy should we Notify the CEO?
The company I work for has many branch locations across my city. Each branch is managed by its own manager. At my branch our manager is rarely present and entirely un-involved in managing the work of ...
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Management expects full participation in holiday nonsense video
Management expects every department to pick a song and participate in a song and dance video to be shown company-wide (think https://youtu.be/X0v_InsGdSE ). Everyone is "expected" to participate, ...
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How can I build a better community? [closed]
I work at an IT services company. It has about 10 departments of mostly IT consultants. Most of these departments stand on their own and there is little interaction between them.
In the past few ...
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Management doesn't trust me because of things that happened before I came on
I am a software developer at a large company. I was recently moved from the project I was hired on to to another project. Part of this was because the development work on my old project was drying up. ...
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When (if ever) is it appropriate to file a grievance about the behaviour of one the MDs in a family business?
I work in a start-up family business and have for a few years. The sister of the lead\head MD (an MD herself) works part time at the business. However, she constantly makes demoralizing comments ...
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Overtime or bonus - how to ask the team to choose
We currently pay overtime and an annual profit share bonus but we want our team to choose between payment of either OT or Bonus or commission (current commissioned employees don't get bonus or OT). I ...
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How to prevent a psychologically fragile person from harming a team?
I'm currently advising a team of six developers working in a company which relies on this team to handle all in-house projects.
The team has a developer who—for some legal reasons I would prefer to ...
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Posting warnings and thank-you letters in public
Sometimes, some of the employees over perform while others perform very badly.
for those who work very hard, thank you letters and raises are motivations for them.
As CTO, I have a case that one of my ...
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Is it offensive to talk about non-discriminating hiring policies
I'm opening a game development business and I have a page on my web-site with open vacancies.
On the page I had a statement that basically says that we don't discriminate people by race, nationality, ...
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Etiquette on freebies at work [closed]
What's the proper etiquette on grabbing freebies around the office? How can we draw a line between stealing/wasting resources and enjoying the treats? I work in a tech company so free food and ...
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Group Introduction Fear [closed]
I have around 7 years of work experience and recently I found myself terrified with group introductions. It has never happened before. I am dreaded with so much fear that I feel I am a total mess.
I ...
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What to do about a teammate who is burnt out
Our team has been working hard on an extremely difficult project with an insanely short deadline. We aren't working 80-hour weeks, but the time we are working is stressful to say the least. Everyone ...
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