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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Hiring Decisions"”.
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Regional Accent Discrimination in Hiring Decisions: A Language Attitude Study
… the notion that US regional accents influence decisions in the hiring process. Fifty-six people who hire for a variety of corporations participated in a computerized survey, during which they listened to speakers from regions of the US reading the same passage. Respondents judged the speakers …
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Intuition in Employee Selection: Examining the Conditions for Accurate Intuitive Hiring Decisions
… managers often rely on intuition to make decisions. Research has found intuition to be helpful when the task is complex; the decision maker is a domain expert; and when the decision environment has a high level of uncertainty, complexity, time pressure, insufficient data, and more than one …
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AchieveNJ and Its Effects on Hiring Principals
… was to investigate New Jersey superintendents’ hiring decisions of principals during the implementation of AchieveNJ, the educator evaluation system. This policy created mandates for school districts, which were nonexistent in the past. The 2013-2014 school year was the inaugural year for …
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All Prejudices are not Created Equal: Different Responses to Subtle versus Blatant Expressions of Prejudice
… prejudice were used as explanations for a hiring decision. The same pattern of differential responding to subtle and blatant prejudice emerged, as hiring decisions based on subtle prejudice were viewed as more legitimate than hiring decisions based on blatant prejudice. Further, this …
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Implicit and Explicit Attitudes toward Mothers in the Workplace
… status of a female job applicant affected hiring decisions. Ninety-three participants acted as mock employers and evaluated one female applicant on the dimensions of warmth and competence from the Stereotype Content Model and provided a hiring decision for this applicant. Participants …
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The impact of formal education, specialized training, and offense type on perceptions of employability: Can bias toward hiring a person with a criminal history be mitigated?
… many employers remain skeptical when it comes to hiring formerly incarcerated job candidates for a variety of reasons. Though hesitations are often related to assumptions about a person’s dangerousness, there remain legitimate reasons, such as limited formal education and basic skills, that …
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Legislating Effective Equality: Implicit Biases and Antidiscrimination Policies
… their behaviors across many domains including hiring and promotion decisions in the workplace. Although legal scholars agree that the implementation of antidiscrimination laws have succeeded in decreasing consciously bigoted attitudes and outright displays of prejudice and discrimination, the …
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The Effect of Appalachian Regional Dialect on Performance Appraisal and Leadership Perceptions
… non-standard dialect can affect recruitment and hiring decisions made by employers. The present study addresses the possibility that these biases extend beyond the hiring process by investigating the impact of Appalachian regional dialect on performance appraisal, perceptions of leadership …
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Is AI Good for All? Ethical Concerns for the Training and Implementation of AI-Driven Decision-Making Systems
… interactions. They automate a wide range of decisions, such as the best candidate for a job, and the information that should be allowed (or censored) online. To avoid a dystopian, algorithm-based future, it is paramount to raise ethics-related questions about the training and implementation …
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THE BEAUTY OF AUDITOR SELECTION: THE EFFECTS OF AUDITOR ATTRACTIVENESS AND AUDITEE GOALS ON PROCURING GOVERNMENTAL AUDIT SERVICES
… indicates attractiveness plays a role in hiring decisions. Recent archival research finds an inverse relation between audit partner attractiveness and measures of financial reporting quality, suggesting that attractiveness biases may extend to hiring decisions in accounting, affecting …
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Quantifying Gender Bias in Large Language Models: When ChatGPT Becomes a Hiring Manager
… same biases as their creators. In the context of hiring decisions, we quantify the degree to which LLMs perpetuate biases originating from their training data and investigate prompt engineering as a bias-mitigation technique. Our findings suggest that for a given resumé, an LLM is more likely to …
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The Elementary School Principal's Influence on Teacher Hiring Practice & Decision Making
<p>In the role of a building principal, the hiring process is among the most critical components of the job, particularly hiring the right people for the right positions. Yet, hiring approaches vary from principal to principal, building to building, district to district. This study surveyed and …
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Aversive Discrimination in the Employment Interview: the Effects of Organizational Policies and Accountability Pressures
The effects of hiring norms and policies on ratings of a gay job candidate were explored using aversive racism theory. Ninety undergraduate participants from a Midwestern university rated a moderately performing department head job candidate (gay vs. non-gay) after receiving information about the …
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Hiring for Success: The Hiring Practices of Site-Based Principals in One District in Virginia
… educational leaders is to ensure that they are hiring teachers who will be effective at instruction. This hiring effectiveness has a direct impact on the efficacy of their school (Donaldson, 2011; Loeb et al., 2012). Despite the importance of using effective hiring practices, there has been a …
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The Effects of Interviewer Self-Monitoring on Male Appearance Discrimination in Employment Decisions
… discrimination toward men as regards employment decisions and the extent to which the degree of interviewer selfmonitoring influences these decisions. Past research has indicated that discrimination does indeed occur for women, but no empirical research has been conducted on male discrimination …
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Intersectionality and employment barriers: analyzing age and gender bias in job advertisements
… 20-40% of employers influenced by bias in their hiring decisions. Sexism and ageism are among the most prevalent forms; however, detecting hiring discrimination is complex and often unreported. The current study focused on the attraction phase to examine how age and gender intersect to create …
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On a First Name Basis: Effects of African American Sounding First Names on the Hiring Decision
… contributes to our understanding of the hiring disparity by examining the effect of applicant race and type of applicant first name on hiring decisions. Two- hundred and five participants acted as mock hiring managers and reviewed an application and resume, completed an evaluation of the …
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Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles
… judgements that have important consequences for hiring decisions. However, little is known about what makes a good judge of personality in the world of online screening for recruitment. This study investigated the relationship between recruiters’ Big Five personality traits (extraversion, …
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