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What's the incentive to go into management if you get paid less? By management I don't mean product/project management, I mean general & strategic leadership o
by albertgoeswoof 9y ago
What's the incentive to go into management if you get paid less?
By management I don't mean product/project management, I mean general & strategic leadership of a large organisation.
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- tim333 9y agoMaybe the person who is paid more has higher skills. The manager could be average and person the manage a star performer.
- arebop 9y agoIf you enjoy it, that's a good incentive. Organizations that overpay managers in order to entice ICs to take up less productive management work are shooting themselves in the foot.
- gaius 9y agoWhat's the incentive to go into management if you get paid less? One organisation I worked for had a very elaborate grade system, I was a Grade 20, the highest non-management grade. At that level you had a choice: try to get promoted to Grade 21 at which you would officially be management, but you would lose your overtime pay, and it wasn't until Grade 25 at least that it would be financially worthwhile. Or you could divert your efforts into avoiding getting promoted... Guess what the majority of engineers did? The guy I reported to there however embraced the promotion. He loved "being a manager". He loved the attache case, he loved going over the minutes of meetings, he loved pre-meetings to plan the next meeting, he loved travelling to attend more meetings... It takes all sorts I guess. He was an unremarkable engineer before, and he wasn't any good at actually managing either tho'!