Career track:

http://www.fpcnational.com/career-tips/48-managing-your-care...

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Executive employee = cadre in French

The link below (in French) explains what the executive employee's status is in France:

http://www.gbo.fr/cadres-et-fuhrungskrafte.html


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The paradox in France is that:

A) an executive employee is not necessarily a manager
B) A manager is not necessarily an executive employee.

In the French tradition, being an executive employee used to be defined by a) the level of education and b) the training in les Grandes Ecoles. As a result, a mid-level manager was not necessarily an executive employee, notably in the industrial sector. Nor was an executive employee necessarily a manager given that a new recruit graduate from a Grande Ecole was automatically an executive employee.

French unions are now fighting to put an end to this bureaucratic system bequeathed by tradition and inconsistent with the workplace. What they want is to include in collective arrangements rules of eligibility that allow good performers in the workplace to be eligible to executive status without a predetermined level of education or graduation from a Grande Ecole.