Salary stagnation is rising concern among Middle Level Managers: 58% Middle managers think they have hit the career ceiling

 Organizations play smart tricks to stagnate the salary rise among Middle Level Managers. There are minimal growth opportunities for Middle Level Managers in large corporates. 

The rising concern over career stagnation of Middle Level Managers is not hidden in any economy. Even in growing economy where corporates are expanding robustly, Middle Level Managers suffer low growth and career development opportunities.

Some of the key issues faced by Middle Level Managers are:

1. Lack of interest in training as there are lesser roles on senior position and low chances of promotion. This creates a n intense lack of motivation for training, personal growth and advancement opportunities.

2. What worked for getting you to Middle Level Position will not work to put you in Senior Level Position. It is a reality check situation for the Middle-Level Managers where there are very less scope for growth after a certain point. 

3. There are very less examples who made it till Top-Executive Position. Most of the colleagues at this stage of career are at equal position or struggling to reach there. This creates a sense of void where you hardly have anyone to look up to.

4. Organizations are cutting down middle-level positions so more than growth, your focus is to save your current role as personal and family expenses of Middle Level Managers are very high as per market conditions.

5. Organizations assume they know enough to learn something new. This is where the graph of career starts coming down when employees as well as employer lack motivation to learn, work on personal development and face challenges. The biggest problem in Middle Level Managers is their saturation towards growth and an easy going approach towards life.

How can you pump up your stagnated career at Middle Level:

- Learn new skills, take admission in some programs, learn new technology in market.

- Keep your mental and physical health up-to-the-mark so that it doesn't pull you down.

- Focus on automation of most of your repeated work, use technology to automate your day-to-day tasks so that fruitful utilization of time can be done.

Every phase of career comes up with its own freshness and challenges, it is up to us how we deal with the challenges and how we use the freshness to grow and develop. 

All the best!!

Neha

Content Editor

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