I manage a small team and was recently hired for a new position. In the job posting, it clearly stated that the work hours are from 8:00-4:30. No concerns about these hours were mentioned during the interview process at all. Recently ...Read more
I manage a small team and was recently hired for a new position. In the job posting, it clearly stated that the work hours are from 8:00-4:30. No concerns about these hours were mentioned during the interview process at all.
Recently after accepting the job offer, the new hire expressed an issue with the hours of work and proposed their own hours. The hours were not even consistent every day, they requested different work hours for each day of the week (they did all add up to the same total number of hours). I rejected this request.
The employee (before the first day of work), then emailed my superior with the same request and was approved.
How do I carry on managing an employee that is willing to go right over my head on an issue like this? How do I address this with my manager so that it doesn’t happen again? ( the first words out of my manager’s mouth should have been “Have you discyed this with your direct manager first?” )
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You’ve got to start out by realising that this is not a problem with your employee, if anything, it’s a problem with your boss. Unless it is typically his / her responsibility to set your employees hours, (s)he’s out of his / her department by approving the request. It is quite probable that (s)he dRead more
You’ve got to start out by realising that this is not a problem with your employee, if anything, it’s a problem with your boss. Unless it is typically his / her responsibility to set your employees hours, (s)he’s out of his / her department by approving the request.
It is quite probable that (s)he didn’t know that the employee’s original request was denied, and it is just possible that (s)he believed that the employee, being new to the company, wasn’t quite sure where to put in the request.
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