What are you saying about executives? Are you saying that they are structured like armies?
I don’t think that’s true, or even that people use “junior executive” at all consistently. My understanding is that companies often have people “on the executive track.” These people go through normal management ranks, but get promoted more quickly. Are they “junior executives”?
And do they exist because it’s necessary to train people to fill executive jobs, and young people are better than experienced but older senior managers; or because those individual people are being promoted via politics and personal relations?
young people are better .. . or … politics and personal relations
It could be either reason, but why is it at all necessary to choose some in advance to move quickly up to the executive levels.
Why? Why not just pick the best person for each job, sometimes taking people from a lower level to shoot up faster than others, but not designate them as a special class? This is what occurs for promotions within the non-exec category or within the exec category.
And in armies, why choose some people in advance to be officers?
Why not just let everyone climb the same ladder, but occasionally choose some good ones to jump up a few rungs?
No, I am just saying that “executive” is a distinct class. They are not just higher level managers. There are legal definitions to this, but they follow on the organization setup rather than the other way around.
Are they “junior executives”?
The companies define that, which is exactly my point. The distinction between “manager” and “executive” seems arbitrary but real, and I wonder why they invented it.
What are you saying about executives?
Are you saying that they are structured like armies?
I don’t think that’s true, or even that people use “junior executive” at all consistently. My understanding is that companies often have people “on the executive track.” These people go through normal management ranks, but get promoted more quickly. Are they “junior executives”?
And do they exist because it’s necessary to train people to fill executive jobs, and young people are better than experienced but older senior managers; or because those individual people are being promoted via politics and personal relations?
It could be either reason, but why is it at all necessary to choose some in advance to move quickly up to the executive levels.
Why? Why not just pick the best person for each job, sometimes taking people from a lower level to shoot up faster than others, but not designate them as a special class? This is what occurs for promotions within the non-exec category or within the exec category.
And in armies, why choose some people in advance to be officers?
Why not just let everyone climb the same ladder, but occasionally choose some good ones to jump up a few rungs?
The second theory would explain that: maybe they’re someone’s special pet (and promoting them even faster would attract unwanted attention).
No, I am just saying that “executive” is a distinct class. They are not just higher level managers. There are legal definitions to this, but they follow on the organization setup rather than the other way around.
The companies define that, which is exactly my point. The distinction between “manager” and “executive” seems arbitrary but real, and I wonder why they invented it.