New internal role created

davholla

At work we have had a new role created - Team leader.

The thing is that there was no interviews for the role one person was given it
without anyone else be interviewed or consulted.

Is that normal practice?

bobthedambuilder

Do you work for your own company or a co-operative?

If not, why do you think you should be consulted about a management decision?

Eliza_2

davholla wrote: »

At work we have had a new role created - Team leader.

The thing is that there was no interviews for the role one person was given it
without anyone else be interviewed or consulted.

Is that normal practice?

Yes in the private sector it is normal practice. In the public sector less likely to happen. (I've worked in both)

getmore4less

Eliza wrote: »

Yes in the private sector it is normal practice. In the public sector less likely to happen. (I've worked in both)

In the public sector they would probably have to go through extensive processes and still employ the person they wanted just wasting time and money.

InsideInsurance

Larger companies tend to have a hiring policy which will state if all vacancies must be advertised, if they must be advertised internally first (or at all) etc. That said, you can have whatever policies you want, if the hiring manager has created the role for a particular person then all the interviews are little more than a sham to placate the policy and the person who it was designed for will get it.

westv

InsideInsurance wrote: »

That said, you can have whatever policies you want, if the hiring manager has created the role for a particular person then all the interviews are little more than a sham to placate the policy and the person who it was designed for will get it.

And other "candidates" end up wasting time and money attending interviews for jobs that they have no chance of getting.

dizzyrascal

This happened where I work. We noticed that one day a colleague had gained the title "Team leader".
It came about because they had reached the top of their grade and could go no further without applying for higher grades. (not possible as she hadn't got the necessary qualifications). However, she had been there a long time and had taken on other responsibilities so we thought it was a way of being given a small pay increase and a possible regrade of her role. By calling her team leader (of one) it perhaps made it easier for HR to match the criteria for a grade increase.

InsideInsurance

I am sure many people working in big companies have the same sort of story. Went for an internal role once which was a hybrid of two jobs, HR hadnt signed it off when I applied and it had both roles in the title.

HR then told the hiring manager that it couldnt have both names in the title and they had to use just one, so they did, I was offered the job subject to HR approval but it came back that it had been put in a lower grade than expected so the offered salary was at the very top of the band. So they switched the job title used, not a single other word changed on the spec and it got regraded as the higher level meaning I was then in the middle of the band and so room for growth before needing to look for another role.