Promotion
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.