Avantages of promotion

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What are the advantages of promotion?

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Advantages or Significance of Promotion — Promotion is one of the sources of recruitment. Promotions offer following advantages.

(1) Promotions provide an opportunity to the present employees to move into jobs that provide greater personnel satisfaction and prestige.

(2) Promotions offer opportunities to management to provide recognition and incentives to the better employees, to correct initial mistakes in appointments and to freeze in efficient personnel.

(3) Promotions generate within an organisation beneficial pressures on work performance and desired behaviour of all its members.

(4) Promotions serve as an orderly, logical and prompt source of recruitment for management to fill vacancies as they arise.

(5) Insiders shall have no problem in handling the new job because they are intimately connected with the organisation structure and different problems. Cost of training will be much lesser.

(6) A sound policy of promotion will keep the morale of the employees high.