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The title change itself has real value to people. People love to feel a sense of progress, and they love to feel appreciated. Promoting the same person twicw ov
by thenoblesunfish 4y ago
The title change itself has real value to people. People love to feel a sense of progress, and they love to feel appreciated. Promoting the same person twicw over N years, instead of once, may cost the same but will make the employee happier. That's the free part.
- taneq 4y agoAnd just like monetary inflation, this inflation's cost is hidden in the devaluation of the inflated commodity. 'Senior Engineer' used to be a title that people valued highly, as a result of the years of work it took to earn. Now nobody's impressed by such a title.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> The title change itself has real value to people. Not to me. A "title promotion" without a pay rise would be demotivating, and lead me to wonder what I had to do to get a pay rise - like, leave, maybe.
- thenoblesunfish 4y agoThat's fair - my first sentence maybe isn't always true in isolation , but I think in the context of the second one it is. Obviously it'd be ideal to invent new ranks between the existing ones, instead of the inflation.