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Management

“Bias in context: Small biases in hiring evaluations have big consequences.”

It is widely acknowledged that subgroup bias can influence hiring evaluations. However, the notion that bias still threatens equitable hiring outcomes in modern employment contexts continues to be debated, even among organizational scholars. In this study, we sought to contextualize this debate by estimating the practical impact of bias on real-world hiring outcomes (a) across a wide range of hiring scenarios and (b) in the presence of diversity-oriented staffing practices. Toward this end, we conducted a targeted meta-analysis of recent hiring experiments that manipulated both candidate gender and qualifications to couch our investigation within ongoing debates surrounding the impact of small amounts of bias in otherwise meritocratic hiring contexts. Consistent with prior research, we found evidence of small gender bias effects (d = −0.30) and large qualification effects (d = 1.61) on hiring managers’ evaluations of candidate hireability. We then used these values to inform the starting parameters of a large-scale computer simulation designed to model conventional processes by which candidates are recruited, evaluated, and selected for open positions. Collectively, our simulation findings empirically substantiate assertions that even seemingly trivial amounts of subgroup bias can produce practically significant rates of hiring discrimination and productivity loss. Furthermore, we found contextual factors can alter but cannot obviate the consequences of biased evaluations,
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657-692 pages 2022 Jay Hardy K. Tey Cyrus Wilson Richard Martell Eric Uhlmann View on: Google Scholar

Book
Management

“Business Writing Style Guide”

The guide seeks to help students apply the basic concepts for effective and concise business writing to compile a well written report acceptable within a business context. It provides a writing process designed for business students to demonstrate critical thinking, reasoning, and persuasion and to use a business model effectively. It provides linkages to resources for improving business writing skills.
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71 pages 2018 OSU Open Textbook John Morris Julie Zwart

Book
Management

“Business Writing Style Guide, 2e”

The guide seeks to help students apply the basic concepts for effective and concise business writing to compile a well written report acceptable within a business context. It provides a writing process designed for business students to demonstrate critical thinking, reasoning, and persuasion and to use a business model effectively. It provides linkages to resources for improving business writing skills.

This second edition will be completed in three parts, first to expand upon the current writing exercises. Next to incorporate instruction about critical thinking in at least one chapter and throughout the existing chapters of the textbook. Finally, to add newly developed material using data visualization in business writing.
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2018 OSU Open Textbook John Morris Julie Zwart Andy Olstad Omar Trinidad

Book
Management

“Chapter 12: Breaking Barriers by Patterning Employment Success”

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of nine colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, United States), is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) with cutting edge programs aimed at increasing the employability of DHH persons, and at enhancing readiness of employers to utilize this talent. In 1968, with a pilot group of 70 deaf students at RIT, NTID’s ‘grand experiment’ was the first attempt within the United States to bring large numbers of deaf students into a hearing college environment, to help them earn college degrees, gain successful employment, and become productive community members (Lang and Connor, 2001). As of 2017, NTID boasts an alumni body of more than 8,000 and an active enrollment of 1,413 students across NTID’s and RIT’s Associate, Bachelors, and Graduate programs (integrated with RIT). NTID students have a higher persistence and graduation rate as compared with the national rates for all students, hearing and otherwise, at two-year and four-year colleges (NTID Annual Report, 2015). NTID boasts an employment rate of 94 per cent among its graduates and Associate degree graduates earn 95 per cent more than DHH graduates from other post-secondary institutions, while Bachelor's degree graduates earn 178 per cent more when compared similarly (NTID by the Numbers, 2017). Overall, NTID has become an international model for educating and preparing DHH students for technology-related careers.
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2020 Palgrave MacMillan, Handbook of Disability at Work Mukta Kulkarni Scot Atkins David Baldridge

Academic Journal
Management

“Childhood-onset disability, strong ties and employment quality”

Purpose

Persons with childhood-onset disabilities are among the most marginalized populations, often unemployed or underemployment in jobs providing neither adequate hours for financial self-sufficiency nor fulfillment through skill-utilization. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which social capital in the form of strong ties with family and friends is associated with enhanced employment outcomes for persons with childhood-onset disabilities.
Design/methodology/approach

Questioning the current theoretical consensus that strong social ties are unimportant to employment quality, the authors draw on disability research and opportunity, motivation and ability social capital theory to propose a model of the impact of strong ties with family and friends on paid-work-hours and skill-utilization as well as the potential moderating role of gender and disability severity. The authors then test this model using data from 1,380 people with childhood-onset disabilities and OLS regression analysis.
Findings

As theorized, family-of-origin-size is positively associated with hours worked. Family-of-origin-size is also associated with having more close friends and children. These strong ties, in turn, are positively associated with hours worked. The impact of having more children on hours worked and skill-utilization, however, is positive for men but non-significant for women.
Originality/value

This study breaks new ground by focusing on the association between strong ties with family and friends and employment quality for people with childhood-onset disabilities – a marginalized and understudied group. Findings further indicate the particular vulnerability of women with disabilities.
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2017 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal David Baldridge Alison Konrad Mark Moore Yang Yang View on: Google Scholar