Any formal recognition in your professional field shows its importance in the context of work. So it's always good to be promoted because it encourages motivation and makes you more productive.
Evaluation and assessment are key elements in academic contexts and academic promotion is a vital benchmark making the evaluation process possible. As such, academic promotion is important to those who want to reach the top and are not content with doing only what is required of them.
The scientific title (Asst. Prof or Prof) puts you on the responsibility of developing your scientific level, so scientific advancement is considered as a motive for further research and reading
It is necessary, but the question how we can do it, in some countries it's like running with time if you have some years working so you should promoted, it's should be depended of the research output
Before one can adequately reply to this particular question one has to interrogate the question itself, viz:
1. What is meant by academic?
2. How is promotion understood?
3. Having responded to the two preceding questions, then the subsidiary question arises, ie, what would be the proposed criteria to consider, determine, assess, monitor the equitable implementation of "academic promotion "?
Thank you for initiating a discussion on this very important topic