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THREE POSITION PLAN OF PROMOTION 191 of promotion. This means the abolishment of the “ blind alley ” job, that is, a position into which some member of the organisation drifts with no chance for advancement. Another by-product of this chart is the fact that the promotion head, the promotion manager, or chief of promotion, as he has been variously called, can arrange for shifting or transferring the worker easily, if he sees that he has been improperly placed, or, if he develops abilities along some unexpected line. This is often the case under this type of manage- ment where there is great opportunity for the de- velopment of latent, as well as apparent, abilities. This master promotion chart is the great educa- tive force to the management as to the impor- tance of proper promotion. The interests of the individual worker and his education as to the importance of promotion are carried on through, the individual promotion charts. Upon these the records of each and every member of the organisation are separately kept. These sheets are often called “ fortune sheets, and it is this aspect of them that is of peculiar interest to the psychologist. When a worker be- comes an interested, or particularly co-operative