Stemming the tide of title inflation

McLagan have just released an interesting article on the dangers of inflated job titles in the work place.

Apart from the compensation cost consequences, the author highlights the issues of:

• reduced employee moral as more junior employees have no development path, due to bloat at the top end;
• and the stagnation that occurs when over-promoted individuals are effectively 'chained' to their employers (which isn't good for anyone involved).

Getting rid of the performance review

Just came across this popular article in the Wall Street Journal.

It somewhat inelegantly makes the case that performance and compensation reviews are flawed because of their one-sided nature. It then argues for the introduction of performance 'previews' which are effectively just performance previews with more of a participatory element. This just sounds like best-practice performance review / development planning; so I'm hardly convinced. No

All in all, this guy (Samuel A. Culbert) needs to get out of academia and into the real world - nevertheless, a thought provoking read.