{
  "id": 16356,
  "url": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-elusiveness-of-merit-based-hiring",
  "title": "The Elusiveness of Merit-Based Hiring",
  "summary": "Patrick George/Ikon Images Since early 2025, organizations seeking to curry favor with the current U.S. administration have disavowed earlier commitments to workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and proclaimed that their hiring practices are therefore meritocratic. But framing DEI and merit as antithetical dichotomies, as various executive orders have done, does not mean that abandoning […]",
  "authors": "Kyle Brink. Kyle Brink is a professor of management in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T11:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "x-mit-sloan-management-review-ai",
  "source_name": "MIT Sloan Management Review AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/topic/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16356",
  "original_url": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-elusiveness-of-merit-based-hiring",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}