Why You Should Let Your Favorite Employee Move to Another Team

Blocking employee advancement is a lose-lose proposition for organizations, employees, and managers themselves, new research shows.

The Research

The authors analyzed 96,712 internal applications submitted to 9,896 open jobs posted by 3,431 hiring managers in the U.S. operations of a Fortune 50 company over a four-year period. This data allowed them to calculate the rate at which a manager’s subordinates were promoted, which in turn enabled them to examine whether managers whose subordinates frequently moved to higher-level jobs elsewhere in the organization were seen as more attractive to work for than managers whose subordinates rarely ...

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