https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/employee-relations/meritocracy-can-backfire-at-work-how-to-fix-it
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains why merit-based talent systems can reinforce bias, and how HR can redesign them to deliver fairness and results.
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https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/02/04/how-priority-programs-risk-eroding-meritocracy-in-bureaucracy.html
How priority programs risk eroding meritocracy in bureaucracy - Academia - The Jakarta Post
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https://everything2.com/user/gate/writeups/meritocracy
Consider a system of social organization where everyone took a standardized test (perhaps related to their field of study, perhaps a general test). The...
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https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/news/sse/2025/op-ed-the-stockholm-school-of-economics-takes-a-stand-for-meritocracy/
Our attempt to use the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test as a selection tool did not work as intended. There is no doubt that we missed out on talented students...
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/1/2360836/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-presents-The-Great-Meritocracy-Race
Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your...
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