26-02-2012 02:40 AM | ||
hanszzz |
here's another thing.. tot of this since is it said that salary > title as a gauge.. imagine Person A (through a series of well executed job switches) has a salary which is higher than what an average person of his/her age should have.. and on the other hand, Person B stayed in the same company for years and have an average (or lower) salary.. assuming both have similar work capability (actual work and/or wayang work), who has a better chance of being promoted?? - Person B who stayed in the company longer (more experience locally) - Person A who is a newer recruit but has a higher salary than Person B (nearer to his/her salary cap) of cuz, this is up to each individual bosses preferences.. but based on your experience, who is more likely to advance? |
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26-02-2012 02:39 AM | ||
Unregistered | should jump from private to govt or govt to private? | |
26-02-2012 01:56 AM | ||
hanszzz |
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so bottom line is that titles these days are inflated and best to go with salary figures/scales.. however.. if the whole title allocation is inflated, wouldn't it be the same?? a higher sounding title is still better than a lower sounding one.. its like saying rupiah is super inflated.. but 200 rupiah is still better than 100 rupiah, inflated or not.. but yup, i guess the main issue is that salary is a better gauge than titles.. |
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24-02-2012 07:46 PM | ||
miwashi | Haha.. thanks for all the insights. I wouldn't know, because I've never been promoted in my life! | |
24-02-2012 06:49 PM | ||
NoRMAL |
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Some older workers at my age feel now working too stress, but I think it has more to do with their inability to change their working style to leverage on technology rather than the work per se is getting much stresser. As for rapid career progression now, at the end of the day to me is just a facade, nothing much has changed. The fact remains that no matter what company in what age, there can only be so many directors : managers : executives : labourer ratio. The ratio hasn't really changed much, but what has changed is that HR nowadays are taking what used to be "executives" and splitting it into 4 or 5 different titles to try and create the illusion that their employees are being recognised for promotion every 2/3 years. Ask yourself in this age, has the job really changed much when you move from Exec to Snr Exec to AM to Manager? Most of the time the changes are very slight and are more of recognition of your "experience" rather than because you are doing something very different. |
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24-02-2012 04:53 PM | ||
miwashi |
This is very interesting, so people just worked for the sake of working. But back then the pace of work was also not as fast as today, right? Today people are forced to work harder, and they in turn expect something more. i wonder if these fancy titles and rapid 'progression' have something to do with HR and all that equity theory stuff and things like that. |
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24-02-2012 04:41 PM | ||
NoRMAL |
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Anyway there are 3 companies which I stayed the longest - 1 MNC in logistics industry, 1 MNC in high tech and 1 GLC the current job. On the topic at hand on jobs, titles and grades I would say the biggest difference is in the past organization structure is much simpler and titles less layers. Back in those days, believe it or not, people do not join companies expecting to get promoted every few years. Many of my bosses then probably had no more than 2 or 3 promotions in their entire lives till retirement. Take for eg the logistic MNC, the structure was very simple, anyone who is doing ops / corporate / admin work with no team management is called an officer, technician or administrator regardless of how long you have been there. Those who rise through the ranks and eventually get to lead a team or small department will be called supervisor or leader, even a degree grad (those days degree grads were considered very atas, like your ivy leaguer MBAs now) will take at least 4 years to move up to team lead. Only people who eventually get promoted to lead a sizable department or in charge of a branch (now we like to call them Business Units) with P&L accountability are called Managers. Managers on one-man show or with a few kakias were virtually unheard of. Nowadays for a similar job they are probably called Directors or SVP or even MD for some banks. The big boss of the entire Asia operations is quite simply called General Manager, Asian Operations. No other BS like President, CEO, EVP that we have now. As for the title Director, these were really the top dogs from US HQ who directly report to the #1 guy who is called Chief Executive. Like Finance Director means the biggest guy in Finance for the whole world like the CFO now and Operations Director is COO now. Some departments have 2 or 3 top henchman called Deputy Directors supporting the Director. In those days not getting promoted for a decade was really no big deal and people generally did not demand for promotions after every annual review. If you can be a Manager before 40 in a big MNC, it’s something to be really proud of. Managers those days came with power and responsibilities to both the company and their subordinates, they really have things to manage besides themselves. Now I see everyone in my co. including me seem to be getting promotion all the time. My current co. even for white collar has so many levels, Executive, Senior Executive, Assistant Manager, Senior Assistant Manager, Manager, Senior Manager, Assistant Director, Deputy Director, Director, Senior Director, Divisional Director, VP, SVP, CEO. Hell there are enough grades for even a mediocre fresh grad to promote every 2-3 years if he stays long enough. But most of the time there is not much change in job scope before & after promotion. |
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24-02-2012 02:44 PM | ||
miwashi |
that's a very interesting insight. Are you an old timer? I always like to hear from old timers about how different things were back then. |
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24-02-2012 02:31 PM | ||
NoRMAL |
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Nowadays we have a lot of companies offering “managers” at $3k and even lower. If you discount that number 20 years back by wage inflation would be ~$1.3k in 1992 dollars. Try telling anyone that you are a manager in 1992 drawing $1.3k and you would be the joker of the year. This title inflation all started in the early 90s when then US finance companies started to dish out AVP/VP/SVP at random. The rest of the non-finance companies in US and soon the world started following suit with managers, directors, vice presidents flying everywhere. Gradually even conservative Asian conglomerates (like Japan & Korean) were forced to inflate them in order to compete for younger talent by offering them these “career progressions”. |
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24-02-2012 02:15 PM | ||
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