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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Team member working from home is distracted with kids while on video calls - should I say anything as her manager?
I have a team member on my team (I am her manager) who works remote from home in another state.
This team member has 3 small kids at home with her and on more than one occasion in MS Teams video calls ...
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What to do when your manager is being excluded by colleagues?
I recently joined a new company as a manager. My company is a large company where managers have several levels, e.g., Manager 1, Manager 2, Manager 3, Director, etc. It is slightly odd but not ...
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Returning back to employer -with a higher job position- after leaving is a problem for MBA program admission?
I was ranked 1st on my B.Eng class and worked as a teaching assistant for 2 years at my university located in Egypt but left it to work in the industry to gain more practical knowledge for 1 year and ...
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How to address a report of employees switching patients under their care in a pediatric dentists office?
It has been brought to my attention (clinical team lead) that one employee is doing some things that are making the other employees frustrated. Setting is in a dental office, what is being said about ...
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What is the appropriate behavior when management decisions lead to tasks no longer being done?
Management decided to let go of certain employees. I've been here a long time, and have a good overview of what everybody did, so I have now noticed that many tasks are simply not being done.
For ...
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Encouraged to ask certain employee for help
I got a new manager just beginning of this year and he replacing my old boss who got promoted to a different department in same company. So I still talk to my old boss but he is no longer my manager. ...
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Should I ask for my wedding voucher? [closed]
A few years ago, my management organized a voucher contribution for one of the manager's wedding. We were not invited but each of us paid £30 to get her a voucher. I got married two weeks ago and my ...
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Can one be demoted and have one's pay cut for not taking a promotion?
I have a position that I am happy with and I excel at. All my evaluations are excellent. I have been with the company for 13 years.
Recently they have asked me to take a promotion to management.
I ...
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When to go to HR
Today at work, my manager yelled at me in front of 3 other witnesses. This problem started when I told a fellow coworker if he was having problems and felt mistreated that he should go to HR. My ...
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Dealing with Remote Colleague and Project Isolation
My colleague (who is more senior than me) and I work in different locations a few hours apart. He moved to the other site and now I'm left supporting the old project alone. Initially, he promised we'd ...
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Is it unprofessional to blindly follow the management ideas? (if that's the company culture)
I'm a senior software engineer with a good understanding of the business.
My manager has a business focus and comes with requests that are clearly not feasible.
I have a good list of records that my ...
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how do you deal with an intern who calls in sick frequently?
So this intern calls in sick at least once a month, sending a note in the morning. These were the last three occurrences:
"I woke up feeling unwell so I have to call in sick today"
"I ...
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As a team lead, how to deal with a developer not doing his tasks
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I am a team lead of a new team with new hires, and the senior developer is stuck with some tasks for a month, every day he reports no updates, or very vague progress reports.
He is the only one ...
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Director forcing an all day meeting on a holiday
I'm really not sure how I should be addressing this, but I am very frustrated. My organization works 9/80's, which means we work 9 hours per day and take every other Friday off. Next Friday (the day ...
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How to confirm responsibilities of team members and then bring up to upper management?
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Team: test automation developer
Position level: (lowest level, I would say entry)
Note: I am by far the least experienced on my team in terms of education and working years. Also, I believe ...
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How can I save a dating relationship when I am promoted and she will be in my vertical reporting chain?
I had been promoted to recently and my division at the company where I work is being reorganized.
I had been dating my colleague for slightly less than 1 year in which she was a previously a project ...
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Dismissive and uncommunicative coworker when there are clear signs of tension
I have worked with a more junior coworker for some time and recently there has been both degradation in the quality of communication between he and me (curt answers, rude interruptions) and uptick in ...
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How do I approach going back to an old company?
I previously worked for this logistics company for almost two years. It was a startup at the time and I was the second hire. At the end of the two years, we had grown this company to almost 50 people. ...
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Did my area manager breach my privacy by telling my managers I’m resigning before I submitted my formal notice?
I went and interviewed with another company and received an offer of employment. Now, I wasn’t actually sure if I was going to accept the offer for a few different reasons, but I was weighing up my ...
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Worried in regards to an email i sent my manager raising concers about training amd colleague health
TL/DR: I got put into a situation in which I did not feel adequately trained, and my colleague has been under extreme pressure and has started having breakdowns at work because none of the managers ...
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Promoted to Supervisor...hard feelings from subordinates
I work in a specialized accounting field. I have over 25 years of work experience with the last 10 being in exactly the same industry and position that I am currently in. I started a new job/position/...
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Approach Sales Manager about fake reference list
I work for a manufacturing company (in EU), and it has come to my attention that the Sales Manager issued a reference list for a project on which I worked as a Senior Engineer. Upon review, I ...
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Am I being over anxious in thinking?
I have worked at my current workplace for 3 years. I enjoy my work.
The company has two main departments, as well as accounts department and HR department.
When I first started the job, the job was ...
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Executives are pressing me to take over another managers team [closed]
I am relatively new to this company I currently manage a team of cloud engineers.
The manager of the managed services team left due to a dispute over team compensation.
I have managed a global team of ...
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can a manager ask me to find someone to cover shifts AFTER I quit?
I put in my two weeks at my (food service) job because I'm going to be moving soon. I got an email back from my manager telling me I need to find people to cover my shift times for the week AFTER I ...
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Why is one of the HR personnel mad at me even though I didn't do anything wrong?
I (F22) am an intern right now together with my 2 friends that are both female. The company and other employees are friendly except for this HR personnel. She's (F45+) so mad at me. Take note: ONLY AT ...
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Need feedback on my internship experience
I am an intern as data consultant, I am experimenting a visualization software for the company i'm working for during 6 months.
I started off with another subject and on my very first day, the manager ...
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How can I help an employee improve their communication skills?
I'm currently a team lead at an IT company, managing a team of 5 software engineers + a PM. Our main role is to maintain and upgrade a SaaS product used by internal and external employees.
We work ...
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Not seeing prospect in the job [closed]
I got hired as a IT contractor to work on project A with Mark, after completing a task in project A I was told to move to new project , project B , which was new.
I was the first person to start it ...
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How to effectively communicate that I want weekly meeting moved to MS Teams rather than in person? [closed]
A little over a week ago, my boss gave me an unwarranted verbal lashing. We are now supposed to meet in person on a once weekly basis for an hour to discuss my work activities. I am in the process of ...
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Just made Product Owner with no prior experience and tasked to lead and renovate the whole R&D department, how can I do it? [closed]
The software development team in our company is 90% external and in the hands of a single external company, as well as most of the technical know-how acquired in the last 20 years: almost no internal ...
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Manager asked for home address without giving a reason. Should I have provided it? [closed]
I'm a developer in an individual contributor role. I'm on a team with 3 other developers and one liaison/PM role. We have a manager, who I'll call "Steve". I was moved onto Steve's team only ...
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Is implementing a "callback" system a viable solution to high call volumes in a call centre environment?
I manage a team handling inbound calls and we are regularly facing a situation where we are missing incoming calls because our inbound volume is greater than our Tier 1 team can handle. It is greater ...
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Dealing with an incompetent colleague on a project
I'll try to keep the introduction very brief and elaborate further down. I work as a senior cloud engineer and our boss manages 4-5 teams of 3-6 people. My colleague - also a senior cloud engineer - ...
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Can I refuse to review the work of the team tech lead if I have a lower grade than they?
Long story short, I work as a data scientist in a small team. The working environment is quite unusual. Key facts:
The lead data scientist's technical expertise wasn't checked during the interview (...
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Manager not happy that I have discussions with executives at events and following up in emails [closed]
Situation:
At our monthly events I socialized with leadership (executives) and had an "elevator pitch" with the outcome of executives' support on a critical project for the organization and ...
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How to deal with a weak manager? [closed]
I work in the healthcare sector.
I am managing a team and IT professionals.
above me, there is a director whose main experience is in accounting and who does not have strong experience in the field, ...
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I fear my Software Dev skills are withering. How could I approach this in future jobs?
Some background:
From 2015 to 2020, after graduating, I worked as a developer for a company, where more or less always managed to do what was expected from me, and ended up being a reliable employee.
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Arrogant , lazy worker considered for promotion
I recruited a person called AG in Asia office.
In the initial year of AG's employment, I encountered significant challenges due to issues related to arrogance, laziness, and a lack of ordinary task ...
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How to Help Employee Who Is Struggling
At the organization I work for, some of our workforce is students from a nearby university, and I supervise a handful of these students. This is my first time supervising people and for the most part ...
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How do I manage this difficult stakeholder?
I need to send an update every week on a turn-around initiative to senior management and the working group.
There's a bully in the working group who waits for me to send an update highlighting that ...
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How can one determine the most effective method for establishing a success metric for a quarterly objectives?
My manager recently took on the additional role of Frontend Architect, and he's asked me to step up and assist with day-to-day responsibilities for the team. Currently, I hold the position of ...
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My senior management is wanting to place me on a PIP
As of yet I have not signed it, and I will admit to some of the issues being fair criticisms that I have been trying to improve upon; some have even merited my supervisor's admission that they have ...
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When (if ever) is it good to speak up if a coworker just sits watching videos all day?
At my job some days I would work out of a room with only one other person in it. 95% of the time he would just sit at his desk watching YouTube videos of World of Warcraft. He wasn't management but he ...
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How to communicate to the team that our company is on-boarding a batch of new remote-only employees from a different country?
I'm currently managing a team of 3 software engineers. On the same level as me, there's a PO taking care of our organization and the work we have to do. On top of all of us, there's the CTO, who takes ...
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Whom should I go to if I have a complaint about the assistant director of the company I work for?
I’m a in home caregiver. I work for an agency that assigns me my clients. We have had a tremendous turnover in our office support staff. I have not met or been introduced to any of the staff now in ...
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How to get past the lack of trust? [closed]
So I just started a job doing what I have been doing for 7 years, fronted react-redux development work and doing pretty good I might add, out of the ton of tickets this company put together, like 16 ...
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How can I state to junior engineers to not work a ticket unless he / she can own the task without demoralizing?
I am a manager in the cybersecurity division where I work. I have been a manager for the past five years and am well respected in the division.
Our team is responsible for security engineering and ...
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Is what I said to my boss (director) excessive?
I am a manager in the cybersecurity division of the company I work in. I have been in management for about 5 years and am well respected by my colleagues.
This week, one of the cybersecurity engineers ...
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Fired due to change in/limited availability (returning to school)?
I live in California and in I was hired at a restaurant in August 2023. During the interview, I submitted availability for Thursday- Saturday. I was hired. 2 months in, my availability changed to ...
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