There is a clear issue with the Army’s promotion system that I will discuss in this forum. I will address my upbringing in the military and what I have seen over my 19-year career.
Without a well-defined chain of command, the Army would not be the well-oiled machine that it is today. The organizational structure, which is “the way in which job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated” as defined in (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p. 519) is very well known and reiterated down to the lowest level. “A simple and direct chain of command facilitates the transmittal of orders from the highest to the lowest levels in a minimum of time and with the least chance of misinterpretation” (Directorate, Evaluation, 2014, p. 6). I remember first joining the Army and having to memorize the rank structure and not having any clue whatsoever. All I tried to remember was that the guys with the stripes could all yell at me and that I could not talk back to them. Now I get to look back at my 19-year career and laugh at myself a little about how much I didn’t know back then. …show more content…
Depending on how well each soldier was evaluated, along with other requirements, depends in what order they are placed on the promotion roster. Unfortunately, there are some leaders in each chain of command that do not know how to write evaluations properly which can affect each soldier differently during the promotion boards.
In conclusion, the problem with the Army promotion system is like a revolving door. Poor leaders get put into positions of higher responsibility based off of their leaders not evaluating them correctly. Once in those positions they hinder good soldiers from getting promoted based off of their inability to evaluate their soldiers properly. “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” (15:14,
Without a well-defined chain of command, the Army would not be the well-oiled machine that it is today. The organizational structure, which is “the way in which job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated” as defined in (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p. 519) is very well known and reiterated down to the lowest level. “A simple and direct chain of command facilitates the transmittal of orders from the highest to the lowest levels in a minimum of time and with the least chance of misinterpretation” (Directorate, Evaluation, 2014, p. 6). I remember first joining the Army and having to memorize the rank structure and not having any clue whatsoever. All I tried to remember was that the guys with the stripes could all yell at me and that I could not talk back to them. Now I get to look back at my 19-year career and laugh at myself a little about how much I didn’t know back then. …show more content…
Depending on how well each soldier was evaluated, along with other requirements, depends in what order they are placed on the promotion roster. Unfortunately, there are some leaders in each chain of command that do not know how to write evaluations properly which can affect each soldier differently during the promotion boards.
In conclusion, the problem with the Army promotion system is like a revolving door. Poor leaders get put into positions of higher responsibility based off of their leaders not evaluating them correctly. Once in those positions they hinder good soldiers from getting promoted based off of their inability to evaluate their soldiers properly. “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” (15:14,