Saturday, October 5, 2013

Is Promotion A Reward for Performance?

A Very Interesting  Point to Consider.  Given that many feel it is a reward, however I strongly believe that it really is not.  Organization's that send this signal are up for failure in their ability to manage expectations of the performers.

I made this provocative & bold statement in one of the Town Hall Meetings recently and many were puzzled.  Some of them came back to me later and said they never looked at it this way.

Promotion is recognizing someone's capability for a job and making that fitment.  If you had to promote someone for his good performance then you can be setting him up for failure.   Remember the famous saying.  "Your best operations guy may end up being your worst sales person"

Common mistake is managers try to play god at times when it comes to promotion. They try to give the promotee a feeling that they worked a lot through the network to manage his / her subordinate to get a promotion.

So it may be incidental a person who is promoted is a good performer but not always true the other way round.

How you manage the process in your organization will determine how others view it and who you promote matters because people read the message loud and clear when you promote the wrong persons and punish the right guys by not giving them the role they truly fit into

The challenge for HR managers would be how else do your reward high performers and your stars.  Ideas welcome.


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