The phrase "appointment on merit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the selection or hiring of individuals based on their qualifications and abilities rather than other factors.
Example: "The committee emphasized that the appointment on merit was crucial for maintaining the integrity of the organization."
Alternatives: "merit-based appointment" or "appointment based on qualifications".
Strengthening appointment on merit is one of the most powerful, yet simplest ways in which the health sector and governments that seek to tackle the challenges of corruption and poor governance can improve their image and efficiency.
Diversity is not only a legitimate part of, but is essential to, appointment on merit.
Wading next into the debate was Sir Brian Leveson who dismissed workplace quotas as the "antithesis of appointment on merit".
Downing Street has said it makes appointments "on merit", following claims Number 10 is ousting non-Tory supporters from public posts.
She gave "strong support" for greater diversity among those appointed to the judiciary – so long as, of course, that such appointments are made "on merit".
However, he warned in his annual report last autumn that he intended to highlight any abuses if ministers did not interpret the code in the spirit of making public appointments on merit.
It is this argument which not only offers the best reason for making diverse appointments on merit, but also an opportunity to make the judiciary a more welcome place for ethnic minority women judges.
Last year's tumult raised expectations too high, he contends, and this has obscured real achievements: civic freedom is stronger, the economy is growing, governance has improved (thanks, he says, to basing state appointments on merit rather than sect), the separation of powers is better enforced and electoral reforms are at last under way.
"He makes recommendations for public appointments based on merit, just as he did with the recent appointment of former Labour adviser Simon Stevens as chief executive of NHS England".
How splendid if commission appointments depended on merit and not on nationality.
