mispromotion

The act mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.

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.

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.

The act of promoting someone to a position for which they are not qualified.

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

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.

A person who has been mispromoted.

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