Missed Promotion Case Study

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Promotion Exercise

My role in the exercise was as the employee. My goal for this meeting was to find out why I did not get the job. I was hurt to be passed over for this promotion, and so I was curious about why that happened. Part of my curiosity is benign, in that I simply want to know how I can improve for next time, but part of it is that I want to get assurance that the process was fair and that the better candidate got the job.

I was able to find out a few things, but the answers were not as compelling as I might have thought them to be. There were other strong candidates, and it was a tough choice, and a few other arguments were made, but ultimately these arguments were short on specifics, to my disappointment.

I agree that this meeting was satisfactory. I was provided with answers, that while not as clear as I might have liked, provided some insight into managerial thinking.
I came away from the meeting with the sense that the process was fair.

I believe that a fair result was reached. The fairness of the process is of utmost importance to me, and after this meeting I am confident that the hiring process was fair, and I also have a pretty good sense of what I would need to do next time in order to win a promotion.

3. I agree that I feel satisfied with this meeting. The reason for this is that I got most of what I wanted out of the meeting. I am concerned mainly with procedural justice, and my investigation tells me that procedural justice was most likely served. This is important for me because I am continuing to work here, and I need to know that I can trust the processes that drive promotions in this company.

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