Dealing with a grad student who does not seem to understand or follow any instructions or guidelines?
So, I am a new faculty (almost completing my second year), at an R1 research university. I have a masters student who has been driving me crazy. They never seem to understand the expectations or guidelines needed for anything. I have been asking them to do a literature review for past four months. Tried developing an outline with them to follow and expected that they would look for the papers in the related field. But it seems like from last four months, they have made zero progress. They seem to just ignore all the deadlines and I feel seemed awfully ready to share a very underbaked lit review with the committee. There have been multiple instances where I tried giving feedback on data analysis and presentation development but it seems like they just don’t want to listen. They literally submitted a poster without giving me appropriate time to give feedback on if the edits even make sense. Currently I am feeling like they are always ready to circumvent me at any point regardless of the concerned task. I am in my early thirties and a woman would it be reasonable to think, they don’t consider me a figure of some authority or knowledge or if I need to follow certain principles in the mentorship. I feel like I am failing as a P.I. here. Any advice would be appreciated.