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next higher manager

English translation: hierarchically: one level up

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English term or phrase:next higher manager
Selected answer:hierarchically: one level up
Entered by: Nesrin

06:59 May 18, 2008
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
English term or phrase: next higher manager
I'm pretty sure I got this right, but I need to be 100% sure:
The next higher manager in an organisation is the manager right ABOVE the manager in question, correct?

The sentence (in a performance assessment form) reads:
Hold calibration meetings with the next higher manager and peers.

(This is in an organisation which has a hierarchy of managers)
Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:49
hierarchically: one level up
Explanation:
you are right
Selected response from:

Luis Elizondo Herrera
Costa Rica
Local time: 22:49
Grading comment
Thank you everybody!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +9hierarchically: one level up
Luis Elizondo Herrera
3 +3Ambiguous
Jack Doughty
4nächst höherer Vorgesetzter
Klaus Urban


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
nächst höherer Vorgesetzter


Explanation:
der Vorgesetzte des Vorgesetzten!

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Note added at 7 mins (2008-05-18 07:07:06 GMT)
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Sorry, I did not relize that this was English only,
the leader of the leader!

Klaus Urban
Local time: 06:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jack Doughty: Hier brauchen wir nicht Deutsch!
1 min
  -> Jack, you are right, I realized this myself, meanwhile, see my amendment.
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Ambiguous


Explanation:
I think you're right, but I've seen it misused to mean the opposite.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:49
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Klaus Urban: What is ambiguous here? In a hierarchy, an individual has a manager/leader, this is the direct leader; this leader has their leader, too, this is the next higher leader; what is ambiguous here?
6 mins
  -> Maybe I'm thinking of "next highest leader". But I'd try to avoid the expression myself, all the same.
agree  Egil Presttun: Yeah, because we normally don't use the expression "next lower manager", and "the next highest manager" may also cause some confusion into this picture. So "misused to mean the opposite" is a description I would definitely believe.
53 mins
  ->  Thank you.
agree  Adela Porumbel: I've noticed that but it can't actually be the opposite, higher is not equal to or lower! It's not that the term in itself is ambigous, but misused sometimes and this creates confusion for a non-native EN speaker.
56 mins
  -> Thank you. Yes, that's what I meant.
agree  kmtext: I would say that next higher would be the one above, but next highest would be the one below, so there is a chance of ambiguity here.
1 day 31 mins
  -> Thank you.
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
hierarchically: one level up


Explanation:
you are right


    Reference: http://www.vault.com/companies/company_main.jsp?co_page=10&p...
    Reference: http://answers.yahoo.com.au/question/index?qid=2008051501160...
Luis Elizondo Herrera
Costa Rica
Local time: 22:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you everybody!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
24 mins
agree  Claire Walker: I think you're right. I recently worked on a large HR project and the term used was N+1, N+1 etc. Meaning the next higher manager would be N+1.
28 mins
agree  airmailrpl: -
4 hrs
agree  Can Altinbay
7 hrs
agree  Erin DeBell: I think this is clearly what was meant.
8 hrs
agree  Mark Nathan
13 hrs
agree  Deborah Workman
18 hrs
agree  orientalhorizon
18 hrs
agree  d_vachliot (X)
1 day 1 hr
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