Absent employees | Administrative overhead and red tape that cause low productivity and delays |
An environment of secrecy, subterfuge or sabotage | Breakdown of customer relationships |
Broken processes | Business disruptions e.g. disasters |
Complex process or project dependencies | Conflict between team members / stakeholders |
Critical know-how or information has been lost i.e. knowledge loss | Customers or internal clients with unrealistic expectations |
Disengaged employees | Disorganization at the executive level |
Employee turnover | Employees bypass process & procedures |
Employees fail to adapt to change to their profession and role | Employees that are hostile to management |
Employees that lack self-direction, initiative or competence | Failure of partners to deliver to commitments |
Failures of infrastructure, facilities and other critical resources | High cost / time commitment required to change technology and processes |
Inadequate internal controls | Inefficient organizational structure |
Inflated stakeholder expectations | Insubordination |
Insufficient budget to accomplish objectives | Lack authority and support to clear issues |
Lack of organizational mission, vision and strategy | Legacy systems that represent bottlenecks |
Low performing employees | Low professionalism |
Low quality requirements from stakeholders | Low team morale |
Low work quality from employees, internal teams or partners | Measuring business processes |
Miscommunication | Mismatch between processes and systems |
Operations issues & risk | Other teams fail to deliver to commitments |
Overproduction of documentation that seldom gets used i.e. knowledge waste | Poor data quality |
Poor support from stakeholders such as project sponsors | Poor team communication |
Procurement & supply disruptions | Project issues & risk |
Projects that run overbudget / overschedule | Public relations issues |
Quality assurance / control failures | Recruiting and retaining talent |
Regulations & compliance issues | Resistance to change |
Strategy and planning in an environment of uncertainty and change | System failures |
Systems are redundant and incomprehensible | Team uncooperative & hostile towards each other |
Uncooperative / hostile counterparts in organization | Unproductive employees |
Unstable executive strategy, direction and support | Unstable requirements -- plans changing too often to complete work |
Overview
Management problems typically relate to performance issues, internal politics, process inefficiency, project problems, operational problems and demanding stakeholders or customers.
Summary
The following are common management problems. These includes problems that are visible to your stakeholders such as projects that are late and overbudget and the root cause of problems such as inaccurate estimates and unstable requirements.
