Originally Posted by Unregistered

Of cos P wants to push the blame to HQ and avoid
being the bad guy lah

Yes, it is true that promotion is ultimately determined by HQ.

But P has the power to raise your CEP, award good performance grades, and accelerate pace of promotion.

Within schools, there are people from same course, same year, same honours, being promoted at different pace.

Where does hq gets the inputs to decide on the different pace of promotion?

Of course from the school lah.