overmanning

A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff, increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers.

The whole system suggests severe overmanning.

Their low productivity, high levels of (now-withdrawn) state subsidy and overmanning meant that they could not compete with agricultural products from West Germany and other EC countries.

Ceauşescu's obsession with numbers ought to have been satisfied by the overmanning which already existed in Romanian industry which could not really provide productive employment for the existing population.

The British Printing Corporation and the dismissal of printers which followed: The B.P.C. was bankrupt, a condition caused by gross overmanning and a ruinous domination by the then old-fashioned printing trade unions.

The project was hit by cost overruns, with an independent review initiated by the government in late 1982, finding excessive rates of pay for construction and operation staff, poor project management, over investment in both the coal mine and power station and general overmanning.