ABSTRACT
The implications of the career concept in the public service go well beyond the notions of merit or proficiency as against patronage. On the one hand we can have the public service that emphasizes promotion. The resultant problems of selection which this sort of service creates may lead one in a variety of directions, of which the distinction between promotion and advancement is one, and open or lateral recruitment may be others. On the other hand, there is the public service which emphasizes advancement. For this sort of service it is held that the promise of a permanent career can be fulfilled only by closing the service and by guaranteeing maximum advancement for all. Promotion is simply internal selection, an alternative to other management succession practices such as the open service of lateral recruitment: a recruit has a right to advancement but not necessarily to promotion.
