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, as an intern or summer student, do you deal with a situation where you are denied opportunities because of your temporary status?
I've worked in a number of internship/summer roles/student schemes and one problem I have come across is that often, opportunities including interesting tasks and training courses are denied to ...
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How to handle a superior who is an 'information sink'
How do you handle a situation where you have provided useful information/ideas to your immediate boss, because you know/feel that information would be of interest to their boss, and you come to learn ...
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What should be the best criteria for deciding of lay-offs?
Even in good times lay offs of people can happen for extreme poor performance or disciplinary issues. However, Lay offs in the time of recession is quite another things. Usually several departments ...
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What is the best way to keep up productivity in crisis situations?
In the situation of crisis, as a manager or senior manager level person, but not the top management folk, managing people and indirectly the project becomes difficult.
By crisis I mean when the ...
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Is there any evidence that giving references for former employees is inherently risky?
I've noticed a trend that most HR departments discourage or even have policies against giving references for former employees that go beyond these basic questions:
Confirm Employment
Verify dates and ...
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How should I bring up working from home?
Working from home is becoming more and more common. If my work lends itself to remoteness, what's a good way to ask management to work from home from time to time?
Or is this not a reasonable thing ...
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How do you criticize/give feedback someone's work without demotivating them?
How do you criticize/give feedback someone's work without demotivating them?
If you need to review someone's work, how do you prevent demotivating them when they did a bad job?
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How can I ask for more positive reinforcement?
I found out that what fuels me to do well at work is positive reinforcement from bosses, colleagues, and customers.
My current job at a start-up is very demanding. My boss doesn't have time to give ...
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What steps can I take to be a good boss to a more experienced employee?
I was recently given a small promotion at work, which has included some amount of managing an employee who has been here significantly longer than I have and who has more experience than I do. I want ...
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What is the best course of action when someone is performing sub-par in your team?
I have been in a couple situations where a member of our group pulls a lot less weight than the rest of us. Usually the manager doesn't realize. However after seeing people like that get credit for ...
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