Questions tagged [morale]
Questions relating to developing confidence, enthusiasm, and/or discipline within the workplace.
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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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