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The military--a completely flat structure of promotion based primarily on tenure and time-served, not necessarily ability or award/recognition. Before you blow
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
The military--a completely flat structure of promotion based primarily on tenure and time-served, not necessarily ability or award/recognition. Before you blow it off as worthless there is some potential merit to it as it cuts out nepotism, cronyism, and other kinds of corruption that push unqualified people up the ranks.
- void_mint 5y ago> and other kinds of corruption that push unqualified people up the ranks. If the metric used for promotion is time served, in what way is that stopping unqualified people from being pushed up the ranks?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The military--a completely flat structure of promotion based primarily on tenure and time-served, not necessarily ability or award/recognition. That's...not how the military works at all. I suppose it might appear approximately that way if you look only at the officer corps and, within that corps, only at survivors of the up-or-out policy. But, while their are minimum time bounds, subjective assessment of fitness (i.e., demonstrated ability) is the main key to selection for promotion.
- khuey 5y agoIn the military it's also paired with an up-or-out system that discharges (what are judged to be) mediocre officers.
- lcw 5y agoThe military is not that much different from the private sector. The first few ranks are as you say, but after that you can be fast tracked by nepotism, and cronyism.