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4. When someone young and new gets promoted, bypassing older and senior employees, there is usually a negative motivational effect on the employees were bypassed. Many individuals believe that seniority and experience on-the-job automatically qualifies them for promotions, but performance can outweigh seniority and experience in the mind of a supervisor, who's making the decision as to who to promote. Alternatively, some employees may be motivated to perform much better in order to ensure that they ...

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