The trust was pressing the executive to reduce senior managers quickly, he said.
"It is worth saying however that severance pay in general was part of an attempt to reduce senior management numbers".
White said it would reduce senior management salaries 10percentt and other employees' pay 5percentt for an indefinite period.
He has plenty of able officers but cannot promote them because of budget cuts and pressure to reduce senior staff.
Thompson decided to make Byford and Baylay's posts redundant as part of a wider restructuring programme at the BBC in 2010, with a target to reduce senior management numbers by 20%.
As such, they tend to reduce senior staffing levels (Hambrick and Fukutomi 1991).
The chief executive of Wiltshire Council who is facing redundancy as part of a plan to reduce senior management costs says he was "surprised" at the decision.
An additional practical conclusion of this research is that, when specific humanitarian technologies reduce senior staff presence in the field, agencies would do well to give local staff a bigger voice in (individual) security management decisions.
"Not only does this new structure reduce senior staff posts by up to a quarter in the next two years, but it allows clear strategic priorities to be set for the armed forces.
