I think people in America are perfectly worked, not specifically overworked. If I did have to lean one way I would say overworked is more true that more motivated. People don't work more hours per wee...

In general, I think the main negative reason that someone would leave their job is having their boss not show appreciation for their efforts. It can be the most challenging and engaging job, but in th...

It is definitely true that showing motivation as a project manager is an important when it comes to motivating your team. As a team member you wont want to work as hard on something your boss hates an...

I'm really excited to do something that will actually be noticed by the world. I have so far done a couple things on my own or with a team that has been cool, but nothing that has really affected anyo...

I'm about to graduate so nowadays I find myself thinking about jobs a lot as before I was a graduate researcher at school but now I have to go get a job. The main thing I am excited for is the money t...

I would definitely go to the managerial role, only because when I look at where I want to be years down the line, it would be in a more managerial than hands-on, engineering role. I would think that ...

The only experience I have with reactive management is at my last internship where my boss was put under a lot stress from it. Me and him were very casual with each other so I would see him and he'd b...

1) In my opinion, the project leader or person accountable for the thing being emailed about should be the person to communicate. They would probably want to be the ones communicating anyways because ...

I think because the nature of maternity leave gives some notice ahead of time, the company can hire a temp as some other classmates replied above. I can think of some scenarios where finding a temp co...

I think you are moving backwards but that doesn't mean you are doing the wrong thing. If you moved forward with the project it would probably have gone under budget or too slow for the original schedu...

The actual cost is what the planned value is trying to predict. It is important to catch these early in the project development phase as it tells the company how much they can afford to spend on a pro...

I think the easiest way to deal with this as a project manager is to give a certain amount of sick days and PTO days that an employee can use. It's important for everyone on the team to feel equal so ...

I feel like I used to always hear from project managers at my old job how hard it is to get people with the right education to stay at the job because for some jobs that are really high in demand, the...

Even if the product checks off all the boxes, if it does not meet well with customers it wont have sales. This will reflect really poorly on the project manager. The project manager is supposed to be ...

I think part of the project manager's job is to look over what the employees are doing and their submissions of work. So if the someone says a certain task will take them a week and you have no idea h...