Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments

Cohen, L., Gurun, U. G., & Ozel, N. B. (2023). Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2023

Link

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30826

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economics_finance

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Primes

• Signal Devaluation
  • Title inflation. Vice-President proliferation and C-suite bloat erode titles' information about seniority and responsibility; external readers adapt by reading titles alongside firm context.

    This sourceDocuments the proliferation of nominal managerial/senior titles (a near-fivefold jump in 'manager' titles just above the overtime-exemption threshold), evidence that titles inflate as discriminators of seniority under issuer incentives.

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