Potential Appraisal??

In making potential appraisal of managers, levels of talent and ambition have to be clearly identified. It should be remembered that there are limits beyond which any individual employee will be over-stretched and likely to succeed. Doing the present job exceedingly well is no indicator of assured success in a higher job. Some employees are cutout for specific jobs. They are happy doing such jobs. Promoting them without assessing their potential may be a lose-lose situation for the organizations. Potential refers to the abilities but not currently utilized. It is the latent capacity to discharge higher responsibilities in future roles. For example all good salesman cannot be promoted as sales supervisors. In the absence of a potential assessment, the organization may lose an ace salesman and get poor sales supervisor.

Main objective of Potential Appraisal are as follows: -

To assess an individual in terms of the highest level of work the individual will be able to handle comfortable and successfully in future without being over-stretched.
To assist the organization in discharging its responsibility of selecting and developing managers for the future to ensure continuous growth of the organization.