[dawnbreez]

Unfortunately, that would get in the way of the office-work tradition of using middle management as a reward. If you expect people to actually be good at managing things, that means you can't give out management positions as a reward to anybody who plays the office game well.

[marcus_holmes]

This so much. We need to accept that management is a skill not a status, and pay managers according to their ability, education & experience same as we do for everyone else.

A good manager is not ego-driven and is perfectly able to function when being paid less than the people they manage.

And then we can just give people more money and keep them in the role they work best at instead of having to Peter Principle them up to their level of incompetence or lose them.