10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERITOCRAT»
Discover the use of
meritocrat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
meritocrat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Organisational Behaviour, 1E
Meritocrat The meritocrat believes that the best ideas always win on their own
merit. Such executives excelled at school, and thus they have a naive reliance on
the authority of objective, measurable facts. They do not want to believe that
ideas ...
Arun Kumar & N Meenakshi, 2009
2
Welfare State Change : Towards a Third Way?: Towards a Third ...
Merely emphasizing 'equality of worth' risks obscuring this basic issue. One can
distinguish four basic positions on this issue. First, there is what we may call the
weak meritocrat position, which objects only to the inequality grounded in E1.
Jane Lewis, Rebecca Surender, 2004
3
He Who Shall Remain Shameless
The Meritocrat, who from the start of Ishmael's surprise attack had been slowly
but surely sucked toward the All-in-One, now came within inches of a small hole
that had opened in the device's front, where the emoticons would often appear.
4
Helping and Intervention: Comparative Perspectives on the ...
Thus, the postindustrial society, in this aspect of power and status, is a logical
extension of the meritocracy: "it is the codification of a new social order based, in
principle, on the priority of educated talent."15 The meritocrat advocates
institutions ...
Joseph L. DeVitis, John Martin Rich, 1988
5
Modern Human Relations at Work
Third, encourage the individual to focus more attention on long-range projects
and stop emphasizing short-run goals, because this is what often causes
problems for the other team members. 2. The meritocrat believes that
recommendations, ...
The weak meritocrat, as we have seen, identifies equality of opportunity with the
absence of discrimination. The strong meritocrat argues that, by itself, this will not
really secure equality of opportunity because even in the absence of ...
7
Jonathan Swift: The Critical Heritage
These logical remarks may well provoke some dedicated meritocrat to try to
refuse to recognize not-deserved entitlements. Such a response would be very
rash. For instance, all claims to universal human rights can only be grounded on
what ...
8
Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R.s. Thomas (c)
In the grim landscape of Thomas's small-scale personal mythology, Prytherch is a
key figure, and his quality establishes most clearly Thomas's role in relation to the
characters both of the new meritocrat and of the cliche-sage who is the ...
Ronald Stuart Thomas, William Virgil Davis
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Harvard Business Review on Finding and Keeping the Best People
Give the meritocrat a little time to absorb this message, but don't let him drown in
self-pity. Instead, jump to something concrete: “So, let's turn to that great initiative
you mentioned to me last week. Let's do it. Who do we need to get on board to ...
Peter Cappelli, Herminia Ibarra, 2001
10
The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance
Durkheim. as. a. biological. meritocrat. In the situation of a forced division of
labour, occupational choice isnot, Durkheim argues,a matterof biological
determination (1964b, p. 315): The son of agreat philologist does not inherit one
word; the ...
Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MERITOCRAT»
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meritocrat is used in the context of the following news items.
George Osborne is the master of all he surveys… except the economy
A true meritocrat would not have prioritised an inheritance tax windfall for the heirs of the propertied wealthy while removing support for bright ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Who was a better man, Napoleon or Wellington?
Unlike the conservative, patrician Wellington Napoleon was a meritocrat. He appointed his generals for their ability, not their birth. And he did ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jun 15»
Minister: Saakashvili will go from Georgian president to Odesa …
Shevchenko told the Kyiv Post that Saakashvili would be a good appointment "in any place, because he is a meritocrat" and that the change is ... «Kyiv Post, May 15»
Will The “New Aristocrats” Broker The Deal?
The meritocrat replies. But although it was once the engine of American social mobility, meritocracy today blocks equality of opportunity. «New Haven Independent, May 15»
Incarnations: The 50 men and women behind India's story
"Buddha's solution to suffering lay in the individual mind. But he was also sketching a new form of society. He was a moral meritocrat, and to an ... «BBC News, May 15»
CIB: THE NEW DASH FOR GROWTH
However, he is also a meritocrat: “In 2011 we kept to our promise to keep to full bonuses for all our junior staff; though bonuses paid to higher ... «FTSE Global Markets, Feb 15»
John Malone: The US billionaire buying up Ireland
A meritocrat and a libertarian who believes in low taxes and government getting out of the way of business, Malone is critical of President ... «Irish Times, Feb 15»
The trouble with Sturgeon's support for a meritocracy
I suppose a meritocrat could advocate removing, or at the very least mitigating, such advantages, but no mainstream political party dares upset ... «Herald Scotland, Feb 15»
Need of the Hour: Che Revolution
... remarkable career. A knock of such hue will have a similarly restorative effect on Pujara too. And he, like his lofty predecessor, is a meritocrat. «The New Indian Express, Dec 14»
WT Cosgrave's achievements may have parallels with the recovery …
He was a meritocrat who believed in an apolitical bureaucracy, and among his administration's many important achievements was the ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
