Sentence examples for confrontational management from inspiring English sources

Fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer, and frustrated by his co-founder's confrontational management style, Mr Allen withdrew from day-to-day operations in 1982 and retired from Microsoft the following year.

In City's case it is clear that Mancini's confrontational management style had left him isolated at the club.

He was notorious for tooling around town in his "bully truck," a 1977 Chevy outfitted with 40-inch tires and a "Neighborhood Bully" decal, and for a confrontational management style that alienated councilmembers.

The four police officers were spotted sound asleep on the job, napping in two patrol cars under a bridge, in a scene that has become a graphic part of one of the more confrontational municipal management experiments in the nation.

He did not discuss the possibility of taking a strike vote, but he said: "We started this new union with the hope of creating a less confrontational relationship with management than had been in the past with Richie Phillips and the old union.

The 52-year-old admitted his style of management is confrontational, but said he does not always take a hard line with his athletes.

Under the leadership of Bob Goodenow, who had a confrontational relationship with league management, the hockey players had successfully resisted the imposition of a salary cap.

JP Morgan analyst Himanshu Patel wrote in a client note that Icahn's less confrontational approach suggests that management is supportive of the offer.

The problem is, while the body is trying to bridge the gap between workers and management through non-confrontational means, it occupies a space in which it is not as actively pro-labour as many in the trenches would like, while still being an annoyance to certain sectors of management.

But a lot is also due to less tangible changes in the corporate culture.In essence, Mr Spinetta inherited a distrustful, confrontational workplace and introduced some novel management tools: telling the truth, communicating with employees and explaining things.

And the original union contract for Saturn was more of a cooperative venture between workers and management than the usual confrontational approach.