One of my tasks at my current job is to manage certain aspects of the work we do, which means managing the people, as well.
I'm pretty flexible on how I manage this stuff, but I do it in a way that I find it to be the most productive for the least impact. If that doesn't match up with the needs of one of our precious flower children, that's tough *expletive deleted*it.
As far as I'm concerned, it's my job to manage, it's their job to deal with my management style and get the work done.
If you can't do either, I'm more than happy to discuss it with you, but I won't guarantee that it will change how I choose to run things. If they don't like that, well, the economy is pretty good right now.
The only person I've ever had a problem with was a relatively new graduate who also happened to be the son of one of our mid-level program managers. He bucked against how we did things on the team as a whole, and especially how I was running my end of things. The bigger problem was that he didn't want to discuss it, he wanted to do it his way and to be lauded for it, even when his way didn't produce positive results.
The frustration level was increasing dramatically, and it came back to bite him in the ass at annual review. He thought he should be getting 5s across the board, when my boss and I felt that he had a couple of areas where he was OK, and others where he rated a solid 2 -- needs improvement. He NOPED the hell off our team and his Daddy found him a new position elsewhere on the contract.