Merit-based Management: Necessaries and Solutions

Merit-based management is a coherent and harmonic approach to administration of human capitals in long run, which is formulated on the basis of a common set of merits related to macro strategies in a nation-state. Along this line, establishment of merits system as one of the macro, strategic policies in Iran has been emphasized in the Twenty-Year Perspective Program and the 4th Plane Law.While reviewing conventional approaches to the concept of merit as well as the experiences of other countries in establishing a management system based on merit, this paper studies the place of this issue in the 4th Plane Law, finally analyzing those infrastructures required for achieving a comprehensive merit-based management.