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).