Applicant ethnicity affects which questions are asked in a job interview : The role of expected fit
Wolgast, Sima LU ; Björklund, Fredrik LU
and Bäckström, Martin
LU
(2018)
In Journal of Personnel Psychology
17(2).
p.66-74
- Abstract
Three experiments on professional recruiters explored how applicants' ethnicity affects questions prepared for a job interview and the implications of this. Study 1 revealed that outgroup applicants prompt recruiters to focus more on whether applicants have integrated cultural norms and values fitting the ingroup norms (person-culture fit), as well as the match between the applicants and their would-be work team (person-group fit). When applicants were from the ethnic ingroup, recruiters focused more on questions pertaining to the match between the applicants' abilities and the specific demands of the job (person-job fit). Studies 2 and 3 revealed that questions prepared for outgroup applicants were rated as less useful for hireability... (More)
Three experiments on professional recruiters explored how applicants' ethnicity affects questions prepared for a job interview and the implications of this. Study 1 revealed that outgroup applicants prompt recruiters to focus more on whether applicants have integrated cultural norms and values fitting the ingroup norms (person-culture fit), as well as the match between the applicants and their would-be work team (person-group fit). When applicants were from the ethnic ingroup, recruiters focused more on questions pertaining to the match between the applicants' abilities and the specific demands of the job (person-job fit). Studies 2 and 3 revealed that questions prepared for outgroup applicants were rated as less useful for hireability decisions, and that summaries emphasizing person-job fit were perceived as more useful.
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- author
- Wolgast, Sima
LU
; Björklund, Fredrik
LU
and Bäckström, Martin
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-04-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Discrimination, Ethnicity, Interview questions, Person-environment fit, Recruitment
- in
- Journal of Personnel Psychology
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85044279661
- ISSN
- 1866-5888
- DOI
- 10.1027/1866-5888/a000197
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1f9e81aa-0253-46ac-bb42-d5a5fc68a398
- date added to LUP
- 2018-04-03 14:04:43
- date last changed
- 2022-04-25 06:37:27
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