English Dictionary

uptitling

名詞

不可算名詞

The practice of giving a job an impressive title to make it appear more desirable. / The practice of giving a book a more impressive title than its content merits.

日本語の意味

（職務や本に対して）魅力的なタイトルを付け、実際の価値以上に見せかける行為 / （仕事・本などに）印象的な題名を与えて、魅力的に見せようとする慣習

The company's uptitling of every position made the hierarchy look impressive on paper but caused confusion about actual responsibilities.

会社がすべての職位に見栄えの良い肩書きを付ける慣行は、紙面上では序列を魅力的に見せたが、実際の職務責任について混乱を招いた。

意味（1）

The practice of giving a job an impressive title to make it appear more desirable.

To summarise, E - while ignoring the initial ramble about the NHS, the Greeks and the 'uptitling' of Personnel to Human Resources - seems unduly exercised by 'the tendency to employ specialists of all kinds which can lead to line managers abdicating their responsibility' with consequent deleterious effect on costs and criticises the adoption of 'mee too' thinking in designing organisations.

意味（2）

The practice of giving a book a more impressive title than its content merits.

But instead, we discover after a few pages that we have been victimized by the common publisher's trick of “uptitling.”