The carmaker was overspending, overmanned and inefficient, and had lost its reputation for quality.
Factories are heavily overmanned: a South Korean car-worker assembled, on average, 26 cars last year, while somebody working at Nissan's British plant made nearly three times as many.
But sooner or later rising demand causes firms to increase their payrolls; any fall in demand would again leave them overmanned.
These firms had no customers other than Railtrack; they were overmanned and inefficient.
It is overmanned, under-capitalised, antiquated and criminalised.
As a comparatively new company, founded in 1978, it has fewer overmanned factories with rusting equipment than many of the SOEs that originated in the Mao era.
LIC is overmanned by 25% at least; its 125,000-strong workforce is among the least productive in the world.
And in principle, everybody agrees that the civil service is overmanned; no incoming minister would dare to stuff his or her department with large numbers of protégés.
To avert bankruptcy it has cut staff working hours, though a politician in Como, the Italian province of which Campione d'Italia is part, still thinks it "overpaid and overmanned".
The newspaper's sales were sliding, the company was overmanned, the printing presses were prehistoric and losses were mounting.
The commission is already overmanned with 20 members, one from each small country and two from each big one.
