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- Title
Predicting How Federal Managers Perceive Criteria Used for Their Promotion.
- Authors
Beyer, Janice M.; Stevens, John M.; Trice, Harrison M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the factors affecting the promotions of the managers working for the government agencies in the United Sates with respect to the manager's perception. The federal civil service is ostensibly a merit system. The criteria used to determine civil service grades include factors like past performance, qualifications in terms of education or expertise, and seniority. The federal managers reported that their own performance would be the most highly weighted factor in their own promotion. The perceived importance of seniority for promotion has a high loading. Less-educated federal managers perceived technical skills to be a more important criterion for promotion than did the well-educated manager. Some federal managers interpret technical expertise as pertaining to detailed knowledge of their particular federal bureaucracy and its missions. Union presence emerged as a positive predictor of the importance of performance for promotion. Less educated, lower status managers and those in smaller organizations saw seniority as more important for promotion than did other managers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EMPLOYEE promotions; EMPLOYEE seniority; PERFORMANCE; EXPERTISE; GOVERNMENT agencies
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1980, Vol 40, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/976109