Major corporations like to hire people for managerial positions that have little or no time at the company. It's easier to create their puppets when you give them a big raise and threaten them with demotion. The young new managers will look like the idiots they are forcing them to isolate themselves from the workers and look to upper management for support. 

This technique might work for a service industry but is often counterproductive for manufacturing or tech industry. 

I get the pleasure of dealing with dipshits from managers to engineers. I fix the fuckups.