Promotions
Recognition is a core element of workplace dignity. A dignity-centered promotion process empowers workers, advances inclusion, and demonstrates fairness.
Promotions can foster dignity.
Recognition is a core element of workplace dignity. Any organization-wide practice that involves employee recognition through promotion and advancement is therefore a systemic opportunity to advance dignity. A dignity-centered promotion process empowers workers, advances inclusion, and demonstrates fairness. Poorly formed processes, or decision-making that punishes flexibility and caregiving or injects bias, on the other hand, can irrevocably diminish the dignity of valuable contributors.
The key organizational functions that play a role:
Human resources generalists/business partners
Learning and development
Management teams
Inclusion and diversity teams
What the organization can do: Actions
1. Create transparent, easily understood promotion criteria that are as objective as possible and are regularly applied across all levels of the organization.
2. Incorporate information about unconscious bias into guidance and training about the promotion process for direct managers and any promotion committees.
3. Encourage sponsorship.
4. Ensure that promotion inputs are fair and inclusive.
5. Anticipate the impact of absences, leaves, and external crises on promotion.
6. Consider other opportunities for recognition, too!
7. Review the data.
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