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Gilding the Carrot Dear Sir

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Vincent
Published date01 June 1984
DOI10.1177/026455058403100212
AuthorR. Thackery
Date01 June 1984
Subject MatterArticles
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LETTERS
. These pages are for comment and discussion.
Deadline date for the September Issue is August 1 st.
Gilding the Carrot
Dear Sir,
cannot progress financially - and that, being
Michael W fllson (March, lyii4) whlle commen-
realistic, is the main reason why people work -
tmg quite validly about styles of management,
money ~ Havmg new management systems and dif-
nevertheless mis-states one of his basic starting
ferent ways of working is merely gilding the car-
pomts. The highly tramed and experienced staff
rot, and does not alter the fact that the opportunities
are not, on the whole, blocked for promotion by
for financial advancement are minimal. This is
the cessation of recruitment. The
previous expan-
going to be to the long term detriment of the Ser-
sion of the Service merely served to mask the
vice as potential recruits of high calibre are going
reality The blockage for promotion has been
to turn to careers where there is better chance of
caused primarily by the fashion for promoting
progress, and the Service is going to have to lower
young and relatively inexperienced officers The
its standards m
order to mamtam staffing levels.
majority of these are not gomg to advance beyond
A
minimum
age of forty for promotion would con-
senior probation officer and are going to occupy
siderably mcrease the number of people promoted,
their positions for 25 to 30 years, thus preventing
without increasing the wage bill.
others from movmg up
...

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