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None of them can explain why "merit based" systems that result in only white males getting promoted can still be called merit based. They haven't spoken to as many incompetent white men in leadership as I have i suppose. My favorite one violates employee rights so often he has his own HR rep assigned to him, instead of just firing him for the verbal and sexual harassment.
In fairness, that doesn't sound like a problem with the merit-based system, sounds more like your organisation's HR policies and enforcement are just weaker than cheap beer.
The problem with having too many white males isn't an issue with "meritocracy"?
That is a different question:
That senior employee is being held there by either a system that doesn't value its employees which would be a HR issue; or is showing behaviours that aren't being challenged by their own line management - also indirectly an HR issue. You can have fifteen different systems for promoting the workforce but they would fail if they're not challenged effectively or the HR policies aren't robust enough to get this dude sacked.
I absolutely agree with you with this part. There's dozens of reasons why this is the case. It's a global tragedy that we've got this far in the world and we've not been able to remove the barriers for people in minority or marginalised groups entering or rising through the workforce.
The number and nature of those barriers is worth of - and have been - studies in themselves.
You're argument is weaker than a bucket of beer flavored piss...