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The Paradox of Meritocracy

Name: The Paradox of Meritocracy
Uploaded: 2019-04-17T15:59:52+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: GHION.AI
Description: This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "The Paradox of Meritocracy" created on…

17 Apr 2019 · 1 min

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This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "The Paradox of Meritocracy" created on April 17, 2019, discussing the concept of meritocracy, its implications in organizations, and research findings from social psychology, including insights from a professor at MIT's Sloan School.

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So we're trying to figure out what is a meritocracy. We can have the aspiration to be a meritocracy. There's some very interesting rigorous research on that. Second headline there. Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you. There's some really interesting it's mostly out of the field of social psychology about what happens when companies put in meritocratic processes. There's a professor at Sloan School at MIT who's written about the paradox of meritocracy and what happens when meritocracy is an explicit goal of a company. Managers make less meritocratic decisions because they think somebody else is taking care of it. Quite fascinating.