The Indian IT industry suffers from a real bad phenomenon. - Attrition promotions.
Let's say you are a super technical brain and is the most sought by your client. The client loves you and thereby your boss also loves you.
Now, you decide it's time to move on. Because the job doesn't interest you anymore. So, you open up the monopolistic email client "MS Exchange" and start happily typing your resignation letter. And then you click "Send".
A few hours later, if you are a super performer, you will be stunned with the number of calls you receive asking you to reverse the decision, as you are the most critical "bolt" in the engine.
Finally if nothing works, they promise "Promotion".
And then if you are person who loves power, you would gleefully accept it and work for another 3 years, before you send the next resignation letter.
Now, this is what I call as an Attrition promotion. To stop losing you, they promote you.
The industry is flooded with such wrong promotions at the wrong time. You should get promoted, when you are found capable and not when you want to leave the organization.
Instead of a promotion, the organizations can challenge their employee with some meaty work and equivalent pay. Promotions signal a wrong direction. Promotions mean that the organization is ready to wide the peak of the ladder.
Don't promote to make the guy stay in your company. If you find him capable, do it upfront or else don't do it.
Let's say you are a super technical brain and is the most sought by your client. The client loves you and thereby your boss also loves you.
Now, you decide it's time to move on. Because the job doesn't interest you anymore. So, you open up the monopolistic email client "MS Exchange" and start happily typing your resignation letter. And then you click "Send".
A few hours later, if you are a super performer, you will be stunned with the number of calls you receive asking you to reverse the decision, as you are the most critical "bolt" in the engine.
Finally if nothing works, they promise "Promotion".
And then if you are person who loves power, you would gleefully accept it and work for another 3 years, before you send the next resignation letter.
Now, this is what I call as an Attrition promotion. To stop losing you, they promote you.
The industry is flooded with such wrong promotions at the wrong time. You should get promoted, when you are found capable and not when you want to leave the organization.
Instead of a promotion, the organizations can challenge their employee with some meaty work and equivalent pay. Promotions signal a wrong direction. Promotions mean that the organization is ready to wide the peak of the ladder.
Don't promote to make the guy stay in your company. If you find him capable, do it upfront or else don't do it.
