Alison Green

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Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog and is the author of Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work.

Should Managers and Employees Be Facebook Friends?

My Employee Wants to Be Micromanaged

How to Handle a Pushy Job Candidate

How to Handle an Employee's Complaints About a Co-Worker

What to Do When an Employee's Spouse Calls You

My Employee Resigned, but Now Wants to Stay

My Employees Won't Keep the Office Kitchen Clean

My Employee Has a Crush on Me

Am I Going Overboard With Praise for My Team?

Am I Asking Too Much of Job Applicants?

How to Get Colleagues to Stop Texting After Hours

My Staff Doesn't Like the Way I Coach Them

How Can I Tell an Employee to Mind His Own Business?

How Long Should You Wait to Reject Job Candidates?

As a New CEO, How Can I Avoid Criticizing My Predecessor?

My New Hires Keep Dropping Out Before Their Start Dates

My Employee Keeps Interrupting Me

How to Deal With an Employee Who Cries When Getting Feedback

How Should Managers Communicate Decisions They Disagree With?

How to Handle Employees Who Don't Like Each Other

My Employee Keeps Telling Me What To Do

My Resigning Employee Is Spreading Lies

My Employee Gave Notice -- and Now Is Slacking Off

My Employee Came to Work With Blue Hair

The Person Who Had My Job Before Me Won't Go Away

Should We Warn Our Team Layoffs Are Coming?

Should I Refuse to Hire My Co-Workers' Kids?

Employees Vent to Me But Don't Want Me to Take Action on Their Problems

I'm Sick of Being the Office Therapist

My Employee Keeps Asking If She'll Be Fired

What to Do When Candidates Don't Respond to Interview Invitations

What to Do About a Chronically Late Employee

My Co-Worker Keeps Making Mistakes That Affect My Work

My Great Employee Lied On Her Resume

Should We Ask Job Candidates Their Salary Expectations Ahead of Interviews?

Should My Company Cut the Salary of a Low Performer?

My Company Offered Someone a Job -- and Then He Got a Bad Reference

Should Managers Ask or Tell When Assigning Work?

Do I Apologize to My Employees Too Much?

My Employees Keep Going Over My Head