HRM 441
Chapter 10 Assignment
A.
Evaluate and improve Chern’s internal promotion process.
Currently, Chern’s promotes sales associates based on supervisor recommendations and
interviews. However, those who have been identified as potential promotion candidates
have not received notification of this, and many have left Chern’s as a result of poor
career planning. To improve Chern’s internal promotion process, Chern’s should set up a
company wide database for those in manager and human resource positions to access.
This database should keep a record of succession management planning to track open or
soon-to-be open managerial positions, as well as those who are good candidates to fill
those positions. Those selected as potentially being promoted should be notified of this
step, as well as given the opportunity to decline being put on the succession plan. While
Chern’s cannot stop those on the succession plan from sharing this information, Chern’s
