[efficax]

you need a tremendous amount of trust in your manager and confidence in your job security to raise genuine issues with management style, manager performance. I've only felt comfortable doing that as I've moved into a upper-senior engineer position with a staff promotion on the horizon. At earlier stages in my career I cared much more about making sure I had a job next month than I did about making the teams I work with/for work more effectively together. Questioning the bossman puts you in jeopardy!