...Hiring Bias When Finding the Right Fit March 31, 2014 You’ve just sat down with the next candidate for an open position at your company. The two of you get along right away and it turns out you have a lot in common. The more you talk, the more this candidate reminds you of yourself or someone you really like. You can easily imagine yourself spending time with this person after work. In fact, this candidate starts to remind you of a good friend –one you would like to hire. Most likely, you believe you’ve made a confident hiring decision based on objective criteria. Chances are, much of your decision was based on subjective factors. A study published in the American Sociological Review indicated that interviewers typically hire candidates they like. Who interviewers like is largely determined by perceived similarity between themselves and candidates. According to research by The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the 2014 Implicit Bias Review suggests that such perceptions are often driven by implicit bias, “attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.” You may try to rationalize your decision not to hire a specific candidate by saying that he or she wasn’t the right fit. But when the right fit is determined by implicit bias, you may end up discriminating against some candidates. Even though you may interview candidates who are qualified and present themselves well, you might still perceive them in...
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...The product Fit Me by Maybelline New York is actually a whole line of products, which is the reason why they called it Fit Me. The line is a variety of make up for women. Since there are a lot of products in this line, I will only be analyzing the foundation. The Fit Me Foundation is make-up that goes on first before all the other types of make-up, essentially it is the base. It is supposed to cover up un-even skin tone, and any blemishes in the skin tone leaving a sort of blank canvas to work on. Maybelline has other lines of related products such as their Dream or Instant Age Rewind lines. The Dream line is actually more specified, with advertising no pores, and then the Instant Age Rewind is just that; makes you look younger. Their Fit Me line fits right in, being that they are reaching out to pretty much everybody, and it really doesn’t matter what you are going for because it will “fit” you. While trying to decide which product to write the marketing mix paper on, I wondered what it is I know nothing about; make up. Being a young man in my early 20’s I neither wear make-up nor do I even walk down that aisle in stores. However, after seeing the commercial, an idea came to me to do the paper on this as the commercial was, in fact, a little intriguing on a marketing stand point. I would say that cosmetics are not easy to sell at all. I mean, why women would want to even buy these products when they are shown to love themselves no matter how they feel or what...
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...point to fit into a standard. Everyone has changed themselves, but many people debate whether it is okay or right to change. They debate this for many reasons. The advantages of changing outweigh the disadvantages of changing. Friends, society, and finding out who you are, are some very beneficial ways you can change yourself to fit into a standard. One way you can change yourself to fit into a standard is to make new friends. Throughout the book, Flowers for Algernon, Charlie says he loves friends. Charlie believes the if he changes himself and fits into society by being smart he can make more and new friends. As a result of his operation Charlie gets smarter so he could make new friends. Unfortunately, the operation made Charlie to smart to a point where people wouldn’t want to be his friend. Lucky for us no human can triple his IQ in a matter of months! Since there are so many people who fit in a standard it is easier to meet new people. Once you meet people who share the same interests as you and society it is easier to befriend them. This then ties back into...
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...Managing Conflict in the Workplace Professional Development, MBA 525 Managing Conflict in the Workplace Introduction Conflict is something we all have experienced or will experience sometime in our lives; one could say conflict is inevitable. Conflict can sometimes get out of hand and can cause havoc in a person’s work life and family life. Conflict is perceived incompatible differences that result in interference or opposition (Robbins, Coutler, 2011). Whether the differences are real or not is irrelevant (Robbins, Coutler, 2011). If people in a group perceive that differences exist, then there is conflict (Robbins, Coutler, 2011). Because of the environment we live in, the strategic alignment of organization’s expanding their workforce globally, the strategic business goals alignment of workplace diversity initiatives, and companies expanding more into work teams and workgroups; conflict in the workplace has become inevitable. There will always be differences in opinions among work groups; however; effectively managing conflict is the key to balancing conflict resolution in the workplace. Recognizing Conflict Being able to recognize the causes of conflict is an important part of preventing conflict (Pace, 2006). When conflict can be recognized a solution can be created to limit conflict in the workplace. There will be varies opinions in the workplace and work teams; however, when conflict...
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...Johnson, Lattrice lattricejohnson@yahoo.com Johnson, Lattrice lattricejohnson@yahoo.com Mgmt 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Ken Mgmt 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Ken Course Project Reducing Turnover Rate Course Project Reducing Turnover Rate MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior How to decrease employee turnover rate? Overview of Organization The organization that will be the topic of discussion in my final project paper is Amazon.com. Amazon.com is an American international electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet based company in the United States. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom & Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico, with sites for Sri Lanka and South East Asian countries coming soon. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. In 2011, it had professed an intention to launch its websites in Poland, Netherlands...
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...not always easy. Entrepreneurs and business owners will always over come different challenges when setting up a business. Finances, location, and finding a good staff is all linked together but can be challenging when opening up a business. Finances have a big part to opening up a business. You will have to find the right lender and see who has the best interest rates for business loans. For example, if I was to start up my own restaurant I will need money to buy or rent a facility, buy restaurant equipment, or buying the food. First I will have to sit down and set up a business plan and see what is within my budget. If the bank qualifies you for a $100,000 loan you know that is your budget. Figure out what you need to get for the business, find the location, and hiring a staff. A good way to budget is find stores that sell cheap items and buy things in bulk. Budgeting money can be very challenging because when you have that large lump sum it’s easy to just buy whatever you see. So as a new business owner plan out what you need for the business and budget the money you got. Finding a location can be very challenging. Explore your options to see if it is the right place to open up a business. You will have to see if it fits into your finances and if the bank approves it (if you buy the location). While finding the right location you should see what the area is like, research your competition, and check the volume of traffic. This can be challenging because you never...
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...close your mouth. That is the golden idea. Everyone has the right to openly voice his or her opinion and thoughts but sometimes that is not what the world needs. Sometimes in order to achieve global change, stepping back, looking through all the bullshit and absorbing other cultures, ideas, and opinions is the best thing. Look through each persons culture, religion, and political position and just focus on his or her human right; the rights that each person in the world is born with regardless of his or her background. Perceiving individuals as humans who deserve rights that protect them from persecution and judgment is the only way to achieve the evolution of the “new” civil rights. Although majority of people believe it is impossible for every individual in the world to be equal the truth is that that is the only way the “new” civil rights are going to evolve because in order to achieve this everyone needs to drop the covers they put up and just listen. Achieving the evolution of the “new” civil rights is a mutual responsibility and in order to do so finding common ground is essential. In this mutual responsibility, it is society’s job to ensure that lawmakers realize the problems and then demand change. “The real solution lies in all of us citizens, not in the tiny subset of us who are lawyers.” (Yoshino 487) Lawmakers are there for society and unless society voices a concern or demand for these “new” civil rights nothing is going to happen. In order to give society a voice...
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...relationship between the variables is -0.132 meaning an increase in the number foreigners on a team lessens the team’s chances of winning. Although a negative correlation exists, it is low as a perfectly negative correlation is -1. Using this correlation coefficient and the line of best fit, it was determined that an increase of foreign-born players on a team by forty percent, the range of the percent foreign-born variable in this study, correlates with the team losing seven to eight more games that season. Despite this correlation, the r-squared value generated from this study as seen in Figure 5 is quite low, a mere 0.0175. An r-squared value of 1.0 means that the line of best fit perfectly reflects the data. Therefore, in this study, the line of best fit does a poor job approximating the data. For example, the trend lines for the 2015 and 2016 seasons were actually positive, meaning that foreigners correlated with a higher winning percentage whereas on the whole time period they...
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...PENTECOSTAL LIFE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMMERCE To Mr. L.C.T Nkhwangwa From HAPPY CHIRWA Course Name HUMAN RESOURC MANAGEMENT Course Code Level of Study YEAR3 Mode of Attendance EVENING Assignment # 2 Submission Date 30/09/2014 Due Date 29/09/2014 Student Signature Question Examine five criteria for effective selection. CRITERIA OF SELECTION Human recruiting is another important aspect of the human resource management in the strategic fit aspects especially. The HRM function being a department on its own and being expected to come up with competitive strategies, the recruiting exercise is vitally important and determines or rather would determine the stand of the entire organization. The need for new recruits comes when a vacancy has been created and the recruiting is s no place is left vacant. The Human resource management is not only responsible for handling the human factor in the organization but also the responsibility to bring in the ones that are deemed worthy to fit the organizations’ cooperate goal. The biggest mistake made in recruiting has directed a lot of organizations’ to their ruin. Pulakos D E (2005) clearly says that organizations’ have spent and invested a lot of their resources in trying to recruit the best candidates and this has become a war of who gets the best because by the end of it all the one with the best players gets the competitive advantage. This actually has made the human factor be seen as an important aspect of the...
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...selection are sometimes one of the hardest processes in any business setting and are the most important in getting small to large business going and afloat. Recruitment can happen at varying stages in the life of a company, and that is why it is so hard. Finding the right people to run your business and investing in your talent pool can help reduce turnover and aid in employee development. In regards, to the recruiting and selection process, there are legal specifications to be aware. There is a particular legal landscape to acknowledge for the industry in itself and also to abide by laws such as discrimination of any kind. . Amazon is a company who has now become a household name, and they recently had an opportunity to grow their workforce. They are in need of a new Customer Service Manager. The entire process begins with starting off with qualified personnel to aid in the recruitment and selection process. That means they will be well trained in fair employment practices, pre-employment practices, and workplace standards such as sexual harassment. If concerned and take their time hiring the right personnel to head the recruiting and selection process they will, in the end, help save resources by hiring the right people in the right manner. To have a successful business, managers and recruiting specials should be very knowledgeable when it comes to equal opportunity laws. Recruiting specialists must be very welcoming of diversity to attract all walks of life. A lot of times...
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...Item #1 Problems: * Emergency meeting at 3:30 * Has to find a way to finish work for the day and catch a flight at 11:30(most important) * Has no secretary The most important problem would be catching the flight for the meeting in Chicago since it’s an emergency and work related. Solutions: Getting work done for the day on the air plane on the way to the meeting. Call the secretary to find out at least some of the info for the meeting. Item#2 Problems: * Internal politicking in the company * Finding someone to replace F.T. Dickenson * Dealing with eliminating his overtime hours The two most important problems would the politicking, because someone else may feel the same way and decide to leave the company too. Also, finding someone to replace him and do his unfinished work in such a short period of time. Solution: Search for a new employee ASAP. Item#3 Problems: * Workers threatening to walk out over a co-worker * 10 votes to dismiss Foreman Edward George The workers are the most important asset to the company, so their interest should be first. Second, you have to figure out what to do about the votes to dismiss Ed George. Solutions: Talk to Ed George about his problems with his co-workers. Hold a meeting and get even more workers involved in the voting process, the take another vote. Item#4 Problems: * Overloading which can result in interruption of electrical power. * Not being reachable for Southern Power Solution: Contact...
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...The movie begins on, main character, Cady Heron’s first day in public school after spending the last twelve years of her life being homeschooled by her parents in Africa. She gets off to a rough start as the new white kid from Africa that has no experience in schools, but things began to look up when she met two kids at lunch. Their names were Janis Ian and Damian Leigh, two outsiders that took Cady under their wing. She found her little clique; they were corky and weird, but she fit right in. Their lunch consisted of Janis and Damian giving Cady the run down on all the cliques and their description became particularly detailed when they expressed their hatred for “The Plastics.” They explained them as the mean, stuck up girls who ran the school, and explained that Queen Bee, Regina George was the worst. The Plastics ran the school in their matching outfits and lingo, and very rarely looked in the direction of anyone who seemed to be lesser than them. The remainder of the movie revolves around Cady’s new friends’ plan to get the inside scoop of The Plastics by having Cady “pretend” to become one. This movie serves as a good example of the Social Identity Theory because it shows the process of gaining ingroup membership, the...
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...How Personal Can Ethics Get? Mahalia D. Wright Dr. B Grizzell, Strayer University Bus 520: Leadership & Organizational April 26, 2011 Abstract This assignment explores an integrating case in the end of our textbook and several articles researched to fully understand just about ethics can get in a organization. The articles and case study conduct detailed findings individual and preferences can impact the ethics of an organization. This paper also reviews an organization’s rules and regulations can impact ethics. This detailed discussion is presented on the reviewed case study about an employee at Wisson Fragrance Company located in Chicago, Illinois named Valerie Young. Valerie’s ethical dilemmas with her boss, Lionel Waters, will give this paper an opportunity to explain the recommendations given due to her circumstances. It has been long understood that employees truly make an organization. The population researched and discussed are MBAs consider vital when searching for a job and it has been proven that most job seekers will not work at a company they could not be proud to state their affiliation. This material suggests that organizations overestimate the level to which others share their views on ethical matters and factors an organization’s ethical practices, corporate social responsibility (CSR), treatment of employees, job training and growth as good impacts. The results from this assignment will reveal the importance of a organization reputation...
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...It is an obvious observation that different personalities within the workplace make a difference in the environment. We spend the majority of our waking hours with the people that we work with and the different personalities within the workplace can make it enjoyable or unbearable. The articles that I will discuss in the essay focus on the types of personalities and the cultural fit of those personalities in the workplace. The first article titled Why Personality Matters in the Workplace by Michael Woody focuses on the types of personalities and refers to them as the Big Five. The Big Five include Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion/Introversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Openness to Experience describes personalities that are open to experiencing new things and are flexible on how they approach situations and new ideas. Conscientiousness are the personalities that are meticulous in the way they approach situations as well as work; people that are on the other end of this spectrum see the big picture and do not get lost in the details. Extraversion is someone that is social and enjoys being around others; introversion is just the opposite of extraversion and tends to work best alone and prefers to work alone or in a small group. Agreeableness easily interacts with others and are generally more trusting of others. Finally, Neuroticism tend are the types of personalities that tend to be negative and are more frequently stressed making them difficult...
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...A Case Study on Internal or External Recruiting 1. Objectives of the Case Study The number of managerial positions is limited in most organizations, and employers fill those limited positions with either internal hires or external recruits. This external-versus internal- hiring decision is important, because managerial capability is a critical determinant of the profitability of an organization. In this case study of Powernet, our objectives are to: * Analyse the issues related to recruitment in Powernet Inc. * Make recommendation in order to face the coming up situation with the retirement of middle management employees. 2. Document Review 2.1. Industrial Organizational Psychology Industrial and organizational psychology is the scientific study of human behavior in the workplace. I-O psychologists contribute to an organization's success by improving the performance, satisfaction, safety, health and well-being of its employees. An I–O psychologist conducts research on employee behaviors and attitudes, and how these can be improved through hiring practices, training programs, feedback, and management systems. I–O psychologists also help organizations transition among periods of change and development. 2.2. Key areas of I/O Psychology * Training & Development * Employee Selection * Ergonomics * Performance Management * Work Life * Organizational Development 2.3. Various branches in Psychology * Abnormal Psychology ...
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