Relational Demography and Similarity-Attraction in Interview Assessments and Subsequent Offer Decisions

By Caren B. Goldberg. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling?: Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment (2010, methodology): “Our database contains information on practically every exam held between 1987 and 2007 in the four main Corps of the Spanish Judiciary: judge, prosecutor, notary and court secretary.(29) Exams are held every one or two years.”
Social Media in Employee-Selection-Related Decisions (2016, background): “In this paradigm, similarity is often thought to lead to greater liking and, in turn, higher evaluations of others (see Goldberg, 2005, for a review).”
Growing Followers: Exploring the Effects of Leader Humility on Follower Self‐Expansion, Self‐Efficacy, and Performance (2018, unknown): “We focus specifically on age and gender as they are “two highly salient and visible demographic characteristics” which convey social meaning in the work context (Pearce and Xu, 2012, p. 377; see also Goldberg, 2005).”
Not welcome here: Discrimination towards women who wear the Muslim headscarf (2013, background): “recruiter-applicant demographic similarities are positively related to selection decisions (Goldberg, 2005; Heilman et al., 1988; Rand and Wexley, 1975).”
Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies (2010, result): “Nearly all studies in management and social psychology relate to hiring decisions, experiments, or evaluations of recruiters (e.g., Graves and Powell (1995); Bon Reis et al. (1999); Heilman et al. (1988); and Goldberg (2005)), with mixed results.”