PROMOTING DIPLOMATS By Roger Lucy (Article)
Roger Lucy
FIXING THE FOREIGN SERVICE PROMOTION SYSTEM - A Modest Proposal
We all know the promotion system is broke. For years efforts have been made to find a workable selection process based on the merit: all sorts of tinkering has gone on to find a way objectively to grade merit i.e. through appraisals, interviews, competencies, in-basket tests, etc. These do not even address the question of how one gets selected to an assignment that allows one to demonstrate ones merit. Maybe we should, instead, be looking at some of the selection, assignment and promotion models that have been used in the past - some quite successfully.