Factors that impact hiring decisions: Do age and technology matter?

详细信息   

• 作者：Schlimgen ; Elizabeth.
• 学历：Master
• 年：2011
• 导师：Reese-Melancon,Celinda,eadvisorHershey,Douglasecommittee memberBurkley,Melissaecommittee member
• 毕业院校：Oklahoma State University
• Department：Psychology.
• ISBN：9781124917986
• CBH：1500299
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：2888147
• Pages：57

文摘

Empirical evidence of employment based age discrimination has been inconsistent. This project furthers the evidence not only on ageist hiring decisions,but also on how technology as a variable interacts with age to impact hiring. Using vignettes and questionnaires,participants (n ＝ 127) were asked to evaluate both younger and older applicants. Participants were randomly assigned to either a low or high technology condition,and evaluated jobs that either required little to no (grocery or sales assistant) or an immense amount (computer or budget analyst) of technical knowledge. Results showed that younger adults were hired at much more frequent rate than their older adult counterparts and rated more favorably on different skills. Results from the technology variable analyses were unpredicted and suggest that more research must be done to fully grasp how technology and age interact to impact hiring and skill evaluations. As older adults need to work longer,understanding how these variables interact is vital to clearly understanding the mechanisms of age discrimination.