TY - GEN
T1 - Promotion in the Israeli high-tech industry
T2 - International Conference on Management and Service Science, MASS 2011
AU - Sharabi, Moshe
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The study focuses on the promotion process in the Israeli high-tech industry from the point of view of workers and managers. A questionnaire containing series of factors related to promotion (education, tenure in the organization, professional experience, success in projects/ missions, politics, multidisciplinary professional knowledge, pressure on the supervisor, age, gender and luck), was conducted to 131employees in an international high-tech corporation's subsidiary located in Israel. Some of our findings were to be expected in the high-tech company examined, but others were surprising. The findings reveal significant differences between workers and managers in seven of the ten factors influencing promotion. Workers and managers agreed that the most important factor influencing promotion was success in projects. While workers and managers gave similar rankings for the most and least important factors influencing promotions, there were substantial differences in the ranking of the other factors. Among managers, education and multi-disciplinary knowledge were ranked second and third, whereas among workers, politics and pressure on the supervisor were ranked second and third. The meaning of the findings and their implications for human resources management (HRM) and organizational performance are discussed in this paper.
AB - The study focuses on the promotion process in the Israeli high-tech industry from the point of view of workers and managers. A questionnaire containing series of factors related to promotion (education, tenure in the organization, professional experience, success in projects/ missions, politics, multidisciplinary professional knowledge, pressure on the supervisor, age, gender and luck), was conducted to 131employees in an international high-tech corporation's subsidiary located in Israel. Some of our findings were to be expected in the high-tech company examined, but others were surprising. The findings reveal significant differences between workers and managers in seven of the ten factors influencing promotion. Workers and managers agreed that the most important factor influencing promotion was success in projects. While workers and managers gave similar rankings for the most and least important factors influencing promotions, there were substantial differences in the ranking of the other factors. Among managers, education and multi-disciplinary knowledge were ranked second and third, whereas among workers, politics and pressure on the supervisor were ranked second and third. The meaning of the findings and their implications for human resources management (HRM) and organizational performance are discussed in this paper.
KW - High-tech industry
KW - Human resources management
KW - Israel
KW - Performance
KW - Promotions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052882101&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5997993
DO - 10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5997993
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052882101
SN - 9781424465811
T3 - International Conference on Management and Service Science, MASS 2011
BT - International Conference on Management and Service Science, MASS 2011
Y2 - 12 August 2011 through 14 August 2011
ER -