What are the possible intentions behind doing this?
To cover up to the areas he lack knowledge. People have different knowledge about different things and no body can be existing with out the other. If you know your weakness area so you need to employ individual to cover that area well so work will be productive. Employment of smart person is also good because some responsibility can be on the employee more than his salary, some CEO do this. They employ base on smart to give you more jobs for salary of one.