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 ask about a work life balance and conflicts in the team?
I'm interviewing for a Software Engineering Team Leader. I already passed all the interviews. The HR scheduled a meeting for me to meet a Group Leader.
Is it okay to ask the group leader the following ...
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How can I raise behavioral concerns as a candidate?
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I'm waiting for an offer from a company I'm currently interviewing with.
The job is a Software Engineering Team Lead at a company with 300 employees.
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During the ...
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Dealing with Boss that berates workers in standup meetings
I am an electronic hardware designer and have never worked in HR. When you see a boss berate workers in front of others daily, in daily stand up meetings it makes me cringe whether I am the ...
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How to deal with someone I supervise not holding their direct reports accountable?
I have a direct report who is not experienced at managing people. I see one of their direct reports not living up to expectations, producing mediocre work, not working full time even though she is ...
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How can I improve an understaffing issue when production manager does not inform management?
I work in the engineering department of a Canadian manufacturing SME. My responsibilities mostly consist of designing products and production support (answering questions, solving issues, etc.). I ...
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Is it okay to be fired for telling coworkers/new hires you're leaving with no rules against it being stated?
I was just fired today from a job for telling a coworker and a new hire that this would be my final week at the company. I have not been working there long and I didn't particularly enjoy the job, ...
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Manager not telling me in advance where I'll be working
I started a new job about a month ago. I'm in the IT department of a medium sized company. They have two offices that are relatively close together. When I accepted the job I understood that I would ...
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Not being reduced the workload
There are around 10 people in my team. We are tech workers and everybody is responsible for their tech area. No two people are responsible for the same area. We work with clients. There are 2 big ...
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How do I qualify for employment as an IT project manager?
Currently i am a developer with around 6 years of development experience in various stacks.
I have a masters degree in computer science and have worked in several scrum teams, partially as scrum ...
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How to avoid conflict of interest when dating another employee in a matrix management company?
I am a member of management working in cybersecurity division with a double digit number team members reporting to me. We have a matrix management structure in which a team member also has a project ...
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Discover all possible stakeholders in a pile of (legacy) systems
I have been assigned a team that seems to have been "abandoned" in the following sense: Hadn't had a direct manager for a long time and has been getting more and more responsibilities of ...
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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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