Does receiving positive performance reviews or awards correlate to accretion promotions?
It is critical for employees and supervisors to understand that doing an outstanding job does not correlate to getting a promotion once you have reached the full performance level of your position. One can do an outstanding job as a GS-13 doing GS-13 level work and be rewarded with performance and other types of awards for years and still not meet the criteria for an accretion promotion. No employee should assume that he or she will — sooner or later — be promoted; there is no guarantee of promotion.
