Promotion Rate
operationalbehavioral · performance · rate · organization
Share of employees promoted in a period.
Why it matters
What you measure connects, through the construct(s) it operationalizes, to outcomes organizations care about. The strongest evidenced links below (effect size × evidence × consequence):
How it’s computed
- Formula
- promotions / average headcount
- Measurement model
- operational (a formula over systems data) — not a reflective survey scale; “reliability” here means data quality, not internal consistency
What it operationalizes
This metric measures the construct(s) below from operational data. Through them, it connects to the meta-analytic relationship network — the bridge from what you measure operationally to what the science knows.
What we know
Synthesized Bayesian priors over relationships involving this metric’s construct(s) — the meta-analytic evidence, with 95% confidence intervals and between-study heterogeneity (I²). Follow a row for the full distribution, contributing studies, and code.
| Relationship | r (95% CI) | I² | k | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ← Career Development (predicts) | [0.21, 0.25] | — | 1 | meta-analytic |
| ← Career sponsorship (predicts) | [0.09, 0.15] | — | 1 | meta-analytic |
| → Career satisfaction (correlates) | [0.20, 0.24] | — | 1 | meta-analytic |
| → Voluntary Turnover (predicts) | [-0.14, -0.08] | — | 1 | meta-analytic |
| ← Mentoring (predicts) | [0.08, 0.12] | — | 1 | meta-analytic |
| ← Proactive Personality (predicts) | [0.07, 0.25] | — | 1 | meta-analytic |
Use it
Track Promotion Rate and its drivers in the People Analytics Toolbox — the registry’s evidence wired into deployable measurement.
Related metrics
360-Degree Feedback Score
Average Overtime per Employee
Employee Utilization Rate
Goal Completion Rate
Human Capital ROI
Internal Mobility Rate
Overtime Rate
Performance Rating Distribution
Programmatic access: /api/v1/metrics/metric.promotion_rate · /api/v1/evidence-statements?construct=construct.internal_mobility.