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7 Management Mistakes That Can Hamper Employee Productivity

Vantage Circle

Mistake #4: Obstructive supervision. Over-supervising or under-supervising the situation. Identifying your teams' key tasks and bifurcating them based on their expertise can help avoid obstructive supervision. Also, instead of top-down supervision, you can remain available for your team to listen to them.

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deli meats and working lunches, internal candidates need not apply, and more

Ask a Manager

I’m not a huge fan of sandwiches, but hey, free food and networking, so I always eat them. For the meetings that go through lunch, there really isn’t time to go get food on my own. Can you talk to whoever’s in charge of food for these meetings and just ask that they include a sandwich that you could eat?

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Ask a Manager speed round

Ask a Manager

To save costs, they’ve started rotating between fast food places, wings, and premade sandwich boxes, none of which have vegetarian options. Would I be out of line to request some more inclusive food options, or at the least a la carte sides? They accommodate dietary restrictions well during actual meetings/company provided food.

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how much snooping can you do on coworkers, my manager told a reference-checker my salary, and more

Ask a Manager

Then they sent me a job offer, and it was shockingly low, close to 25% below what I was making at my previous job, even though this position was advertised at the higher level that I was targeting. I am in a role supervising a team of multimedia instructional designers. They expressed strong interest and contacted my references.

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my abusive ex works at the company where I’m interviewing, friends keep trying to lure me from my job, and more

Ask a Manager

I imagine had I pursued the various security guard and food service, flight attendant, astronaut jobs I have been propositioned with over the years in spite of having no training, certification or experience in them, the other hiring managers would have felt the same way. If so, what is the best way to do this?

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

Despite evidence of the dangerous nature of this product, along with mounting pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and child safety advocates, the aspirin industry denied any negligence on their part and instead blamed the reported safety concerns on poor parenting.