An assumption within my organization is that age and experience are the best indicators of competence. There is a great emphasis put on seniority and rank within the organization I work for and this results in the assumption that age and experience are evidence of job competence. This can often result in the ideas of employees farther down in the hierarchy not being considered fairly which hurts the overall organization. This focus put on age and experience can result in a lack of innovation. Another example of this is our most recent training manual is a few years out of date. This assumption relates to time and space since it deals with someone's on the job experience over time with the organization. There is a fixation on what worked well in the past instead of focusing on ways to innovate