Sentence examples for layers of managers from inspiring English sources

"A bigger company means more layers of managers between people".

This would reduce the layers of managers and increase UK production overall.

He did so swiftly and methodically, sweeping away whole layers of managers and directors.

Companies happily chopped out layers of managers during the 1990s; now people are likely to repay them by moving to the highest bidder.

"Companies like Merck have fantastic scientists working for them, but they also have these middle and upper layers of managers who are just taking up space," he said last week.

Adm. Frank L. Bowman, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, said he kept track of safety issues involving the engines that powered nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers by limiting the layers of managers through which information must travel from line officers to his desk.

G.E. was famous for, even admired for its layers of sector managers, department managers, unit managers and supervisors, all of whom were thought to be essential to strategic planning and quality control.

After Miriam O'Reilly [pictured] won her fight to protest against discrimination in her sacking from Countryfile, the BBC apologised and sent an entire layer of managers on "awareness courses".

There is always the chance, alas, that BBC4 will get cancelled, because the BBC is cursed with the superfluous presence of at least one layer of managers so dense that they don't realise what is valuable about the institution they infest.

Ask them why that change isn't happening faster and they will describe a "marzipan layer" of managers facing the everyday challenges of business life for whom the sustainability debate is an irritating irrelevance far removed from daily targets and routines.

He recalls that layers of middle managers made it difficult for executives to make and carry out decisions.