Our workplace equity committee has been surveying employees about fairness in promotion processes and the responses are splitting along demographic lines in ways that make it clear we're not all talking about the same thing when we say 'merit' or 'qualification' and now we don't know how to interpret or act on the data.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group confronting how their supposedly neutral assessment tools embed contested philosophical assumptions about merit, qualification, and fair evaluation.
“Where Are You with What is justice — philosophical survey?”
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