Has anyone ever demoted a highly paid manager? This individual was one carrying this company and handled so much, now has really taken steps back for many reasons (health, age, etc), but has the exact same salary.
Does anyone have experience with this?
I do. I had demote a director of operations and return him to an estimator.
I ended up firing him 2 months later for intentionally sabotaging projects and not meeting his responsibilities.
He already wasn’t meeting his responsibilities in his higher role, but he was causing much more damage in a director capacity because of it.
There was about 30 days where his incapabilities weren’t affecting anything after his demotion, but as things started to right themselves, he was getting impeding progress.
The demotion 1000% soured him and enraged him.
No one ever takes a demotion well, unless they really feel like they weren’t meant for the role and took it out of pressure.
His pay had to remain the same, just as a side note, when I demoted him.