Journal of Management, Vol. 16, No. 1, 45-60 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/014920639001600104
© 1990 Southern Management Association
Physical Attractiveness and Selection Decision Making
Paula C. Morrow
Empirical research on the role of physical attractiveness in employment selection is reviewed. Physical attractiveness is conceptualized as a beneficial status characteristic, although further investigation of the magnitude of the bias is needed. Conceptual and methodological problems impeding understanding of physical attractiveness are noted and a descriptive model specifying the role of attractiveness in selection decision-making is offered.
Decision Making in the Employment Interview: An Experimental Approach.
Authors: Rothstein, Mitchell; Jackson, Douglas N.
Descriptors: Decision Making; Employment Interviews; Job Applicants; Models; Personality Traits; Personnel Selection
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology, v65 n3 p271-83 Jun 1980
This study used a model of social perception in a simulated employment interview to evaluate the model's potential for investigating the selection decision-making process. (Author)
Business Communication Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3, 11-18 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/108056999505800303
© 1995 Association for Business Communication
Applicant Appearance and Selection Decision Making: Revitalizing Employment Interview Education
Richard J. Ilkka
As a topic within the larger corpus of materials on selection interviewing, applicant appearance has been addressed through advice giving, folk wisdom, and other prescrip tions. As presented, such materials tend to undermine opportunities for issue identification and assessment. Through review and interpretation of that employment interview research which addresses the relationship between applicant appearance and interviewer selection decisions, the purpose of this paper is to encourage those who teach, train, and counsel others on employment inter viewing to devote more studied attention to appearance issues and ethics. To that end, five instructional proposi tions are offered. Each proposition is developed through review of related research and then capped by instructional observations.
