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MIT researchers found that "in companies that explicitly held meritocracy as a core value, managers assigned greater rewards to male employees over female employees with identical performance evaluations"
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Here's a link to the study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2189/as…
The authors: "conducted three experiments with a total of 445 participants with managerial experience who were asked to make bonus, promotion, and termination recommendations for several employee profiles"....
"We manipulated both the gender of the employees being evaluated and whether the company's core values emphasized meritocracy in evaluations and compensation." ...
"The main finding is consistent across the three studies: when an organization is explicitly presented as meritocratic, individuals in managerial positions favor a male employee over an equally qualified female employee by awarding him a larger monetary reward."
Since people seem to be interested in this tweet, here is another, more recent study that discusses key findings about (supposed) meritocracy in organizations and makes design recommendations accordingly journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
