promotability

Slated for next year: Development of strategies to groom more women for promotability.

As research has shown, a manager's perception of a subordinate's commitment to the organization is positively associated with the individual's promotability.

Because these books are promoted through publicity, publishers screen the author for pedigree, like a Ph.D. and promotability.

In business, empire-building is demonstrated when individuals or small groups attempt to gain control over key projects and initiatives to maximize job security and promotability.

The study, commissioned by the Civil Service, found that while men and women scored equally well in job performance, men were rated much higher on what researchers call "promotability."

It's a question the player, who three years ago announced the dual goal of becoming No. 1 and playing to please herself rather than to live up to her promotability, hasn't quite resolved.

PLUSES - Most interviewers look for good communication skills, the ability to interact with others, the ability to handle stress, the ability to solve problems and promotability.

And such a disadvantage in promotability is discouraging for companies that are committed to presenting contemporary work but are competing in a cultural marketplace that is more crowded and clamorous than ever.

A computer-based personnel system allows factors such as qualification, job location, home location, mobility and promotability to be included simply in a list of criteria on which the retrieval of records should be made.

"Unlike the networks," says Miss Hastings, "we can't promote our shows in prime time every night, so we look for high promotability - for a best-selling novel or major casting or people whose names are well known."

Michael D. Boxberger, managing director for North America of Korn Ferry International, the big management recruiting firm, points out that moving within the United States may not be enough to assure a person's promotability.

This caused a lot of bad feelings between the enlisted pilots (who had more dangerous jobs for lower pay and no privileges) and the officer pilots (who received the same pay, promotability, and privileges as officers).

Mandatory participation in three hours weekly of Physical exercise, termed "Physical Training" or PT, is considered a minimum starting point; further fitness is rewarded by better evaluation scores, which increase promotability, as well as benefits for winning athletic competitions.

In the model predicting likelihood of promotion, the main effect of parental status is marginally significant and positive, while the motherhood penalty interaction is significant and negative, indicating that the negative effect of parental status on perceptions of promotability accrues only to women.