mispromotion

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ promotion

Noun

mispromotion (countable and uncountable, plural mispromotions)

1. The act mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.
   • 1969 March 3, John R. Rarick, Congressional Record, page 4998:

     Mr. Speaker, the legal theory of Brown against Topeka rejecting a denial of freedom of choice because of race has suffered mispromotion to the point that today “freedom of choice" is again illegal.

   • 1995, Proceedings: Linking science and technology to societal benefits, page 205:

     The rapid decrease in fat trim of retail beef cuts in the U.S. from 1986 (13mm) to 1988 (< 3mm) (Cross et al 1988 ) is surely an indication that institutionalised "imposition" of an historic quality grading system can result in a mispromotion of product with costs of heroic proportions.

   • 2006 October 17, O Avitzur, T Valeo, “What Physicians Can Say About Off-Label Therapies—Lawsuits Could Set New Precedents”, in Neurology Today:

     “There is a strong incentive for employees to report mispromotion or other acts that might be regarded as a false claim – whistleblowers get 15 to 30 percent of what the government collects,” he points out.

2. The act of promoting someone to a position for which they are not qualified.
   • 1978, Thomas J. Atchison, Winston W. Hill, Management Today: Managing Work in Organizations, page 146:

     This mispromotion phenomenon has become popularly known as the Peter Principle (12).

   • 1991, John Wareham, The Anatomy of a Great Executive, page 5:

     For, still today, I continue to be amazed at how many senior executives fail fully to realize the potentially ruinous cost of a mis-hire or mispromotion.

   • 2012, Bradford D. Smart, Topgrading:

     Every manager sitting with HR to analyze the costs of every mishire, by reviewing the total hiring file on the mis-hire or mispromotion, sees that cutting corners on Topgrading methods is foolish because it is so costly.

3. A person who has been mispromoted.
   • 2009, Chris Lauer, The Management Gurus:

     The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions.