研究期間：10108~10207;This study is composed of two-stage independent and consecutive study. The major purpose of the first-stage study is to establish a High Potential Scale and the main purpose of the second-stage study is to examine the effect of potential and performance on managers’ promotability. The operationalized variable and questionnaire items of potential used in the second-stage study will be based on the scale developed in the first-stage study. How to define and evaluate high potential employees is one of important issues of talent management. Unfortunately, the definition of potential is still vague in both academic and practical worlds. Thus, the instrument of potential will be established through following steps: literature review, depth interview, and reliability/validity pretest and retest. The instrument of potential developed in the first-stage study will be utilized in the second-stage study for examining the relationship between potential and managers’ promotability by using supervisor-subordinate dyad samples. The major hypothesis of the second-stage study is that potential and performance are determinants of managers’ promotion, but potential plays a more important role than performance in promotion decisions. If the hypothesis of this study is supported, there are profound implications for companies to make right promotion decisions. It may also have some contributions for academy in the fields of succession plans and talent management.
