What is employee job promotion in hrm?


Taking an employee to the next level of grade and designation is termed as promotion. A promotion is an elevation of an employee to a higher position, pay, and privileges. Bigger profile, responsibilities, pay and opportunities also come along when an employee is promoted.

According to Pigors and Myers promotion can be defined as "Promotion is the advancement of an employee to a better job-better in terms of greater responsibilities, more prestige or status, greater skill and especially, increased rate of pay or salary."

An employee’s promotion is elevating him to a higher job role with more roles and responsibilities so that he is able to meet the specification of the next profile in a cadre.

Promotion is a critical stage in the lifecycle of an employee as well as for the organization. It is very important to select the right candidate at the right time for promotion. Potential to add more responsibilities and exhibiting good performance in the current role are two different things, organizations often misunderstand the Performance and Potential. The two Ps however similar they may sound are different and are to be assessed differently.

A promotion should be offered to employees who are prepared and have the potential to take up new roles. However, a good performer should be rewarded and not promoted. Organizations tend to reward performers by promoting them without understanding their potential to take up the new profile which they will be given upon promotion.

Eg. An individual contributor performing well in his role, if promoted to handle a team with added responsibilities which he may not be good at can result in a wrong decision. At times, employees fail to perform also if they are entrusted with additional responsibilities.

Therefore, it is advised that recommendations for promotions should be well evaluated through a series of competency assessments so as to understand the gap between the current level of performance and expected levels, in order to avoid any organizational fiasco.

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