Occasionally you might be concerned about losing your job. But you should also consider your commitment to the organisation. This is because it will take time to hire and train someone else, and it will take even longer for them to get up to the same productivity as you in the role.
In his book published in 1969, Laurence Peter proposes the Peter Principle: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Many promotion decisions are beyond logic, such as promoting an engineer to a manager because they are an excellent engineer. The decision is made based on the employee’s performance in an engineering role, but engineering and management are completely different sets of skills and should be treated as such.
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