The phrase "awkward management" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a style or approach to management that is clumsy, uncomfortable, or lacking in finesse.
Example: "The team's performance suffered due to the awkward management style of the new supervisor, which left employees feeling confused and unsupported."
Alternatives: "clumsy leadership" or "inept management".
But it looks a bit awkward, as management gets to participate on both sides — receiving a nice cash-out while reloading into a stake in the newly private company.
Van Gaal's awkward style of management has caused widespread disquiet among his players.
In the food service industry -- where I worked the last two months -- there persists a culture in which breaks of any kind are shunned and the mere discussion of them can provoke awkward conversations between management and employees.
The letter is likely to create an awkward situation for the management of Children's Place, which operates the Disney Store chain.
Throughout pre-season, Barca's news conferences have frequently contained questions suggesting the signing of Suarez has struck another serious blow to the club's previously pristine reputation, forcing players and club management into awkward pre-rehearsed assertions that the striker has apologised for his actions and promised not to do it again.
"This is going to be an awkward, unwieldy beast from the management perspective," an executive at a rival carrier said.
"It's kind of an awkward circumstance," said Michael Useem, a management professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Even Ewing's decision to have Checketts, Grunfeld and Van Gundy with him puts the current Garden management in the awkward position of highlighting the team's previous regime.
Disease management is an awkward name for a system in which someone other than a doctor has the job of making sure a patient's care is well coordinated.
Contrast this with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's juvenile critique this past weekend of actions undertaken by the Obama Administration, spewing invective-laced commentary as if venom from a rattlesnake Rummy has replaced his famous post-it notes management style with awkward and trivial political commentary.
