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Meritocracy at Work: Well-Intention Systems Can Cause the Reverse

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Meritocracy at Work: Well-Intention Systems Can Cause the Reverse

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If managers believe, because of formal performance evaluation and compensation systems, that their organization is meritocratic, they are ironically more likely to engage in less meritocratic behaviour. Researcher Emilio J. Castilla of MIT’s Sloan School of management calls this “the paradox of meritocracy.”


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June 9, 2016

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Aug 2016
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