Human Resource Management

Chapter: 07. Employee Placement, Promotion & Termination

Employee Placement
After employee selection or hire, the personnel must be placed in his/ her job position. This is
called placement. Placement is the process of allocation of human resources or assign or reassign
of an employee to a new or different job position.

Principles of Employee Placement

1. Placement should be according to the job requirement.
2. Job should be offered according to personal qualification.
3. The employee should adapt with the working condition prevailing in the organization.
4. An effort should be made to develop a sense of loyalty and co-operation.
5. The placement should be ready before the joining date of the newly selected person.
6. The placement in the initial period may be temporary.

Promotion
The advancement of an employee’s position within the organization is called promotion. That
means advancement of an employee to a better job, better in term of greater responsibility, better
prestige, better skills, especially increased benefits or salary.

Basis of Employee Promotion

1. Seniority
2. Merit or performance
3. Mixed of seniority & performance

Principles of Employee Promotion

1. Uniformity
2. Consistency

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3. Fair and impartial
4. Planned activity
5. Definite basis
6. Approved by the specific department
7. Follow-up

Advantages of Promotion
1. Increasing salary
2. Responsibility
3. Designation and status
4. Opportunities for downward people
5. Job satisfaction
6. Increasing motivation
7. Minimization of training cost

Employee Transfer
Employee transfer is one kind of job rotation. A transfer is a horizontal or lateral movement of an
employee from one job, section, department, shift, plant or position to another at the same or
another place where his/ her salary, status and responsibility are the same.

Reasons of Employee Transfer

1. Job satisfaction
2. Punishment
3. Business expansion
4. Family issue
5. New leadership skill
6. Organizational issue
7. Promotion
8. External factors

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Employee Termination
Employee termination is the release of an employee against his/ her will. The process is
unavoidably painful. That means firing from the job. This is the highest punishment.

Reasons behind Employee Termination

1. Misbehavior
2. Insincerity
3. Misunderstanding
4. Low performance
5. Indiscipline
6. Corruption
7. Spread out the confidential information
8. Absenteeism
9. Biasness

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