# kaal:claim:3071378-015

**Claim.** Promotion to high level executive positions turns on subjectively assessed skillsets such as leadership, personality, judgment, attitude and initiative, and these facially objective criteria can be distorted with relative ease.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- high level executive promotions assessed on subjective criteria

**Source quote.**

> executive positions often involves skillsets that are assessed subjectively, such as leadership skills, personality, judgment, attitude, initiative etc.61 Such criteria allow supervisors and managers to apply criteria that facially seems objective, but can be distorted with relative ease.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America* (2017), III.1 Corporate Structure, page 16

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `125f01674d13b6bb0310c4be7a20ff538dccbc36ecf352770b3c580028387edd` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202017%20-%20Blockchain%20Technology%20and%20Race%20in%20Corporate%20America.pdf

**Failure mode.** subjective-promotion-criteria-distortion  (family: measurement-and-metric-failure)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** subjective-criteria, promotion, discrimination-mechanism, corporate-structure

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the claim. Its sha256 is the content hash used for attestation.