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I quipped "every bureaucratic process becomes a random process with bias at a certain scale" this morning. This is important, because it applies to hiring in the same way as to performance review, and even project execution.
For hiring, performance review and promotion, it is usually hurtful for the employee because they are led to believe the processes are objective. I strongly suspect these processes could be made cheaper, fairer, and more transparent by openly acknowledging the randomness.
I have joked before that a randomized promotion process (in essence a lottery where winning chances are modified by peers) may be asymptotically fairer, more transparent, and easier to de-bias with regards to subgroup promotion chances.
Also think about the hundreds of millions of $ in middle management time saved that are currently wasted in promotion processes.
And it addresses the problem of branch offices becoming career dead-ends :-)
