The cost of rewarding unqualified employees and how to remedy

Promotion of those falling short of the required threshold leaves hardworking employees demotivated. PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK

In the workplace, rewards only sometimes go to the most qualified employee. Often, they do the heavy lifting only for a lay-about colleague to bag the accolades and, soon after, the promotion.

To the qualified, it feels like the reward system that should ideally be based on meritocracy is rigged against them, a situation that Human Resource (HR) experts say is the surest way to bring down an organisation.

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