Template:Director hierarchy

The hierarchy of adjectives for employees of large organisations goes, in increasing order of gravitas/existential frustration, as follows:

• Komsomol - youth wing: Analyst / Employee / Authorised officer
• Party member: Associate director / associate vice president
• Officious minor official: No-adjective director / vice president
• Lower secretariat: Executive director / executive vice president, senior vice president
• Upper Secretariat:Managing director
• Politburo: Partner managing director /. Group managing director / Senior managing director
• General secretary: Chief executive officer