Changing promotion system

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Choose three (3) internal selection factors that you believe would be most reliable for promoting employees within an organization. Next, describe two (2) reasons why an individual should consider these three (3) factors when promoting employees within an organization. Justify your response.

Case Study: Changing a Promotion System (Pg. 545)

Bioglass, Inc. Specializes in sales of a wide array of glass products. One area of the company, the commercial sales division (CS), specializes in selling high tech mirrors and microscope photographic lenses. Sales associates in CSD are responsible for selling the glass products to corporate clients. CSD has four levels of sales associates, ranging in pay from $28,000 to $76,000 per year. There are also four levels of managerial positions; those positions range in pay from $76,000 to $110,000 per year.

Tom Caldwell has been a very effective sales associate. He has consistently demonstrated good sales techniques in 17 years with Bioglass and has a large and loyal client base. Over the years, Tom has risen from the lowest level of sales associate to the highest. He has proved himself successful at each stage. An entry level management position in CSD opened up last year, and Tom was a natural candidate.

Although several other candidates were considered, Tom was the clear choice for the position.

However, once in the position, Tom had a great deal of difficulty being a manager. He was not accustomed to delegating and rarely provided feedback or guidance to people he supervised. Although he set goals for himself, he never set performance goals for his workers. Morale in Tom's group was low, and group performance suffered. The company felt that demoting Tomb back to sales would be disastrous for him and present the wrong image to other employees; firing such a loyal employee was considered unacceptable. Therefore, Bioglass decided to keep Tom where he was but not consider him for future promotions. It as also considering enrolling Tom in some expensive managerial development programs to enhance his management skills.

Meanwhile Tom's replacement, although successful at the lower three levels of sales associates positions, was struggling with the large corporate contracts that the highest-level sales associates must service. Two of Tom's biggest clients had recently left Bioglass for a competitor. CSD was confused about how such a disastrous situation had developed when they seemed to make all the right decisions. Based on this application and your reading of this chapter, answer the following questions.

• Based on the case study Changing a Promotion System (Pg. 545), determine what you believe are the three (3) primary weaknesses in BioGlass Inc.'s promotion policy. Next, describe two (2) solutions to address the identified weaknesses. Then, provide one (1) method for preventing similar problems in the future. Support your rationale with specific examples of such strategies.

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