Storm Clouds on the Horizon: On the Emerging Need to Tighten Selection Policies

Athlete selection is fundamental in elite sport, occurring regularly throughout an athlete's development. Research in this area reveals the accuracy of these decisions is questionable in even the most elite sport environments and athletes are increasingly disputing these decisions as unfair and punitive. As a countermeasure to these dispute and arbitration practices, many elite sport systems have created policies where coaches must outline and stand behind the criteria used for their selection decisions. Selection criteria policies have the potential to help encourage fair selection practices by holding selectors accountable to their selection criteria, but their implementation also has the potential to wrongfully nudge selectors toward developing more defendable, but less-accurate selection practices. The paper concludes with 10 suggestions to help support practitioners when implementing selection criteria.

Incentivizing Stable Path Selection in Future Internet Architectures

By delegating path control to end-hosts, future Internet architectures offer flexibility for path selection. However, a concern arises that the distributed routing decisions by endhosts, in particular load-adaptive routing, can lead to oscillations if path selection is performed without coordination or accurate load information. Prior research has addressed this problem by devising local path-selection policies that lead to global stability. However, little is known about the viability of these policies in the Internet context, where selfish end-hosts can deviate from a prescribed policy if such a deviation is beneficial from their individual perspective. In order to achieve network stability in future Internet architectures, it is essential that end-hosts have an incentive to adopt a stability-oriented path-selection policy. In this work, we perform the first incentive analysis of the stability-inducing path-selection policies proposed in the literature. Building on a game-theoretic model of end-host path selection, we show that these policies are in fact incompatible with the self-interest of end-hosts, as these strategies make it worthwhile to pursue an oscillatory path-selection strategy. Therefore, stability in networks with selfish endhosts must be enforced by incentive-compatible mechanisms. We present two such mechanisms and formally prove their incentive compatibility.

An Analytical Study of Policy, Politics and Bureaucracy Regarding Meritocracy in the Selection of Head for the Federal Government Institutions

The purpose of this study was to investigate meritocracy in the selection of top positions in the federal government offices from the context of politics, bureaucracy, and selection policies. This research uses the five-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly agree to disagree. The data was collected from the officers working regularly in the different ministries of the federal government through a personally administered survey questionnaire with a 78% response rate. An assortment of key findings was noted among which the most prominent one is the issue of meritocracy which affects the right selection of public servants in the government institutions. Secondly, it was also noted that the recruitment and selection policies are also affecting the effectiveness of right selection. Thirdly, one of the important findings of this study was the political impact on equality of gender-based selection. It has been concluded in this study as highlighted in earlier studies that relevant authorities have to pay attention to balancing gender equality by avoiding political influence. Furthermore, this research suggests conducting further research to analyze other aspects of underlying factors causing gender inequality in the selection of bureau heads.