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Study: Efforts to Promote Workplace Meritocracy Can Have the Opposite Effect http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110502006774/en/Fair-Foul-MIT-Sloan-Resear

by j_s 10y ago

Study: Efforts to Promote Workplace Meritocracy Can Have the Opposite Effect http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110502006774/en/Fair-Foul-MIT-Sloan-Researcher-Finds-Efforts http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110502006774/en/Fair... edit: My point is that throwing a "diversity strategy" completely in the trash "because meritocracy" doesn't make sense. I can't say the linked study is 100% applicable but hopefully it will open the door to consideration of the value of combining multiple approaches.

teacup50 10y ago
"Our findings simply demonstrate that the pursuit of meritocracy at the workplace may be more difficult than it first appears" That's not an indictment of pursuing a meritocracy.
ve55 10y ago
This seems like it's a problem with the people that were used in the study, not inherent within the system that they used. What would you suggest, after having read this, to not attempt meritocracy at all because it will be biased when those making the decisions are biased? Replace them with algorithms. Feed the algorithms objective metrics that you wish to optimize. This is much easier said that done, but now your meritocracy does what you intended it to do. If you encounter problems, the metrics are not what you want them to be, or the problems are problems at another level, which you cannot solve from changing this part of the system.