The Rationality of Commendations that are Rooted in Contradictions

In a prior post, using illustrations drawn from context of business, I showed a contradiction can embed a rational course of action.

In this post, I show that the God who reveals Himself in the Bible, The God who is Father of Jesus Christ, Himself embeds Commendations of people in Contradictions. I further demonstrate that, in an imperfect world filled with imperfect candidates, all of God’s commendations were perfectly rational.

First, however, delineation of an important principle. Suppose two candidates for a job, Candidates A & B. Suppose the recruiting team does not make any attempt to project it’s identity (it’s collective subjective preferences or biases) on the candidates, implements the hiring process solely for benefit of the organization. In this respect, note that it is well established that recruiting efforts of organizations have tendency not to address organizations’ most important needs (Tom 1971; Christiansen et al. 1997; Adkins et al. 1994; Kristof-Brown et al. 2005).

Suppose then that Candidate B is offered the job, goes on to deliver a solid average performance.

The question is: Should the hiring organization deem it’s hiring efforts not fully successful, this because Candidate B only manages to deliver average performance?