It seems to me that in the company I work for, the only way to get a salary rise is to take on a management role or to bring in high levels of consultancy income.  Having a highly developed level of technical expertise that’s needed to develop and maintain our products, and respond to enquiries [...]

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While I love male company, and prefer working for a male than a female, I have found myself in a middle management role where all my peers are men and my manager as well.  Sometimes I feel that they talk over me, or don’t take seriously some of the issues / concerns / topics I [...]

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For our first posting we’ve taken the example of a contributor’s dilemma from a few years ago. Please let us know your thoughts, and do send in questions of your own that you’d like to hear views on. My boss was a respected and highly successful board member, responsible for generating high levels of new [...]

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