Promotion policies in Indian railways - A Case study of south western railways Hubli

It is a systematic means of finding and inducing available candidates to apply to the company for employment. The promotions from within is a widely accepted and long established policy in many organizations, large and small. Even when no such policy has been formally stated, practice often indicates its general acceptance. While promoting the employees to higher position; seniority, merit and trade test should be considered, but with this the management has also to consider: Personal behavior, past performance, attendance, proper interaction with labour and management etc. Trade unions come into action only when an employee is done an injustice in case of his promotion. The unions cannot fight for the employee even recommend him when he is not fitting into any of the promotion criteria. The present study tried to know the role of unions in providing the promotion.