Staff Promotion and Transfer — Flashcards

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Promotion is the upward movement of an employee in the organisation's hierarchy. It means moving from a lower job to a higher job with higher salary, greater status, more responsibilities, and greater…

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Promotion encourages employees to work harder because it brings better pay, higher status, and greater responsibility. It acts as a reward for good performance and improves motivation, morale, and job…

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Promotion from within reduces orientation and training costs because insiders already know the organisation's rules, structure, and work culture. It also helps create a reservoir of potential managers…

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Promotion from within may fail when promoted persons lack the required skills. It may also block talented outsiders, reduce labour mobility, encourage favouritism, and limit the growth of the organisa…

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An open promotion policy is a system in which all existing employees are considered as candidates for promotion and vacancies are announced internally. It gives wider participation in promotion decisi…

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A closed promotion policy is a system in which candidacy is restricted and vacancies are not announced to all employees. It is used when promotion is kept limited to selected employees or levels.

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In open promotion, all employees are considered and vacancies are announced. In closed promotion, not all employees are considered and vacancies are not announced. Open policy is broader; closed polic…

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Dry promotion means assigning a higher-level job to an employee without any increase in pay or benefits. Responsibilities increase, but salary does not. A professor made Head of Department without a p…