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 can I approach career development with a boss who doesn't seem to support this?
I really enjoy my current job. The team is friendly, my manager is friendly, and the work is challenging, interesting, and fulfilling. Because of this, I have no interest in leaving this company or ...
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How can we protest a deadline that is too short?
Our Project manager made a project's presentation and assigned it to our team. The amount of work was estimated at 3 weeks.
Our team members discussed the project and we calculated that the amount ...
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Should I propose a big change as a newcomer?
I have been working in the IT department of a (relatively) small company for 2 months.
Recently the boss of another department (who is a former developer) told me that it would be nice if we started ...
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How to proceed when remote boss doesn't answer emails?
My boss and I sit in different remote sites, several thousands of miles apart. We don't see each other often.
On several occasions in the last few months, I have sent him emails asking him for ...
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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 I respectfully go above my manager?
First off, this specific incident is about a volunteer organization, not necessarily a workplace... Having said that
I have two sets of managers directly above me: the management that funds, and the ...
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Underpaid and overworked, how should I approach my boss? [duplicate]
About a two months ago a co-worker and I caught our superior embezzling money from the company. After consideration, we approached our boss and told him the whole story.
Our superior quit ...
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How to push back on a management decision I know is wrong [duplicate]
Today I had a thirty minute presentation that was well researched and contained a lot of examples regarding why we need to change a data source which my research has found produces unreliable data ...
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Should I give a bigger notice period than what is required of me?
I am a contractor and my current contract ends on May 29. I have been in this position for a total of 3 contracts (including the current one), in contract lengths of 3 months, 3 months, and 6 months, ...
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How do you explain to your boss they're wrong without making them feel threatened?
I work in software industry as a developer. My boss sometimes makes small mistakes when assigning tasks or reporting bugs. For example, he recently reported a bug caused by a virus on his computer to ...
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How can I deal with an abusive manager who publicly belittles me?
I joined my job as an entry level programmer and my manager at the time agreed with me that I could attend college to increase my programming abilities. This would happen whilst working for him and ...
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What are some best practices for creating an internship opportunity?
I'm in the fun position of getting to do some pie in the sky planning and advice giving. I certainly have my own opinions, but wanted to get ideas from the community.
Here's some useful facts:
the ...
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Implementing something your boss has asked for, even if it's potentially a bad idea
For my company we are creating a private portal so the company can log in and get the information about their product from our website. My boss wants it to be that only people logging in from that ...
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How to handle a coworker pretending to be my boss? [duplicate]
I have an odd situation: I have a coworker who acts like he's my boss. I've already confirmed with higher-ups that it's just not true.
He'll say all kinds of things like:
This is my department.
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My facebook wall is bothering some colleagues at work, do they have the right?
On my Facebook wall, as does everyone else, I post stuff that reflects my opinion about many things, including jokes, videos, posts, etc. They simply represent my thoughts and who I am. Sometimes I ...
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