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I don't really doubt that mediocre men often fail up - I've witnessed it myself. But this isn't a great title, the conclusion that mediocre men fail up is from
by Traster 5y ago
I don't really doubt that mediocre men often fail up - I've witnessed it myself. But this isn't a great title, the conclusion that mediocre men fail up is from the qualitative part of the survey in other words - women believe mediocre men fail up. Which then highlights the obvious point, maybe mediocre poeple fail up, and you only notice it because men are much more likely to go "up" at all. I've certainly also witnessed mediocre performing women in senior positions, but since there are such a tiny number of women in my field, I would be much less willing to draw that conclusion.
- rightbyte 5y agoI think it might be quite clear why this happens. If you have a team of say sales persons, you would not want the top performers take on a role with more administration. So you promote the ones that won't leave a hole in the team output and are also somewhat competent, since the sales person will most likely be replaced by an average sales person.
- rablackburn 5y agoI wish I worked at a place that thought that much about their efficiency, at least it kind of makes sense. Instead it seems like no one thinks about the business, but about the social politics of the organisation.
- rightbyte 5y agoSure. I don't think that managers reason and comes to this conclusion in like a strategic plan, but rather "I need #1 Bob on the floor to grind my bonus" and this is what happens. Surely it is just a theory that doesn't explain the whole concept.
- rijoja 5y agoYeah and also when their methodology was simply asking 44 women. It is not as if they measured the performance of men and then compared that to whether they where promoted or not. No, they merely asked 44 women.