507Professional Development in the Five Hundred Largest Polish Enterprises
more popular than the American one but still considered to be too rigorous (about 18% of
responses).
• Young age can be an obstacle to the promotion to a managerial position, especially at a
medium or higher level—even if the candidate meets all other expectations; this has been
conrmed in the case of 13% of the examined companies.
According to our respondents, the criteria of promotion are the following:
• It has been most often said that only substantive criteria and the achieved successes are
decisive of promotion (55% of respondents have chosen this option).
• Secondly, 34% of responses have indicated that even though substantive criteria and suc-
cesses are decisiv ...