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Do elite universities practise meritocratic admissions? : evidence from Cambridge

Bhattachary, Debopam; Rabovic, Renata - 2020

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Do Elite Universities Practise Meritocratic Admissions? Evidence from Cambridge

Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2020

The merit-vs-diversity balance in university-admissions remains a controversial issue. Statistical analysis of these problems is jeopardized by applicant characteristics observed by admission-officers but unobserved by researchers. Using administrative microdata from the two-stage Cambridge...

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Preferential Hiring

Singer, Ming; Lange, Craig - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 9 (1994) 1, pp. 17-21

Explores managerial professionals′ views on gender‐based preferential hiring versus merit selection, and examines …

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Assessing Equal Opportunities Policies

Liff, Sonia - In: Personnel Review 18 (1989) 1, pp. 27-34

A 1984 survey revealed that 60 per cent of organisations in the UK operate equal opportunities policies. What is the significance of this in practice? Statistics continue to show inequalities between various categories of workers – men and women, black and white, able‐bodied and disabled....

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CREAM: Criteria‐Related Employability Assessment Method

Ripley, Robert E. - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 9, pp. 27-36

Presents an improved replicable systematic method for the selection or promotion of employees through the developmental … continuous improvement over the past 20 years. The case study is of a new firefighter recruit selection process developed for the …, quotas and other special internal selection methods while meeting most if not all the external regulatory requirements, and …

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Job sharing and equal opportunities under the new public management in local authorities

Branine, Mohamed - 2004

This paper starts with the assumption that local authorities, under the new public management, may use job sharing as part of an equal opportunities policy in order to attract and retain experienced and professional employees. Data collected from 32 councils in England and Scotland have shown...

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