Rank-and-file employees, or rank-and-file staff, are the backbone of most companies. With no fancy titles on their business cards - if they even have business cards - nor the word "manager" in their ...

The U.S. Navy’s rank and rate structure isn’t easy to understand when you grow up in a different branch of the U.S. military. For example, a captain in the Navy is not the same as a captain in the ...

Chair? President? CEO? There are so many titles in corporate America that it can be difficult to know who's in charge in the business ranks. While all of the "c-level" executives are top in their ...

June is nail-biting time at Enron Corp., a Texas energy and trading giant, at which managers assemble twice a year to evaluate and cull employees as if they were head of cattle. Wrangling behind ...