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Promotion

B5

Define and manage the way in which employees are promoted.

Improvement Planning

Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)

Representative POMs are described for Promotion at each level of maturity.

1Initial
  • Practice
    Encourage line managers to take decisions regarding promotions.
    Outcome
    Promotions may be decided by line managers informally.
    Metric
    % of promotions decided by line managers.
2Basic
  • Practices
    • Establish a basic employee promotion process within the IT function.
    • Introduce promotion criteria.
    Outcome
    Line managers can base their promotion decisions on established criteria.
    Metric
    # of criteria used.
3Intermediate
  • Practice
    Establish a standardized promotion process in IT and some other business units that is based on a fixed set of criteria for every career level and that is in line with the definition of job families.
    Outcome
    There is a standardized promotion process that can be followed by line managers and the HR function.
    Metrics
    • % of promotions decided by line managers.
    • % of promotions decided by HR.
    • % of promotions decided by line managers and HR.
4Advanced
  • Practice
    Establish a designated organization-wide committee to take promotion decisions.
    Outcome
    All promotions are consistently overseen by a committee.
    Metric
    % of promotions decided by a committee.
5Optimized
  • Practices
    • Align the set criteria used for promotions with the IT people strategy on a periodic basis.
    • Reflect input from the business ecosystem in the process.
    Outcome
    The promotion process is effective, in line with the IT people strategy.
    Metric
    Frequency of alignment reviews.