Making the Cut (eBook)

Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment

David Pedulla (Autor)

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2020
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20007-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment. To date, research has largely focused on how these experiences shape workers' well-being, rather than how hiring agents perceive and treat job applicants who have moved through these positions. Shifting the focus from workers to hiring agents, Making the Cut explores how key gatekeepers-HR managers, recruiters, and talent acquisition specialists-evaluate workers with nonstandard, mismatched, or precarious employment experience. Factoring in the social groups to which workers belong-such as their race and gender-David Pedulla shows how workers get jobs, how the hiring process unfolds, who makes the cut, and who does not.Drawing on a field experiment examining hiring decisions in four occupational groups and in-depth interviews with hiring agents in the United States, Pedulla documents and unpacks three important discoveries. Hiring professionals extract distinct meanings from different types of employment experiences; the effects of nonstandard, mismatched, and precarious employment histories for workers' job outcomes are not all the same; and the race and gender of workers intersect with their employment histories to shape which workers get called back for jobs. Indeed, hiring professionals use group-based stereotypes to weave divergent narratives or "e;stratified stories"e; about workers with similar employment experiences. The result is a complex set of inequalities in the labor market.Looking at bias and discrimination, social exclusion in the workplace, and the changing nature of work, Making the Cut probes the hiring process and offers a clearer picture of the underpinnings of getting a job in the new economy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b/w illus. 5 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Accounting • accounting work • Administrative Assistant • administrative work • African Americans • Ambiguity • Applicant (sketch) • Application for employment • Audit study • background check • black people • Bonnie Oglensky • bookkeeping • bookkeeping work • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Business Cycle • Career • career ladder • caregiver • Carroll Seron • child care • Chris Tilly • clerical work • Competition • Contingent work • Cover Letter • credential • Customer • Cynthia Fuchs Epstein • Day laborers • disadvantage • Drug test • economic forces • Economic Inequality • Economic insecurity • Economic Integration • Economic Security • Employment • employment agency • employment experiences • employment opportunities • Equal Opportunity • Esther Neuwirth • Exclusion • exclusive hiring • Falling from Grace • Field Experiment • Finding • Flawed System/Flawed Self • freelancers • freelance work • full-time • full-time work • Gender Inequality • Gender Role • Good Jobs, Bad Jobs • Great Recession • hiring decisions • Hospitality Industry • Human Capital • Human Resource Management • Human Resources • implementation • inclusion and exclusion in hiring • inclusive hiring • Industrial relations • inference • Institution • Internship • Jackie Rogers • Job • Jobhunting • Job Security • jobseekers • Katherine Newman • labor and employment relations • Labor Force • Labor Market • Lauren Rivera • LinkedIn • Logistic Regression • Long-term Unemployment • Louis Hyman • Masculinity • Meta-analysis • minority group • Motherhood penalty • narrative • Obligation • obstacle • occupational culture • of education • Ofer Sharone • On-Call Work • on-call workers • organization • Organizational Policy • Organizational Studies • overqualification • Part-time contract • part-time positions • Payroll • pedigree • Personality Test • Philip Moss • precarious work • Precarity • Prediction • Project Management • Qualitative research • Racism • Recruitment • Reputation • Requirement • Respondent • Résumé • Robert Sauté • sales work • Scholarship • Service Sector • Sexual orientation • Skill • Social Class • Social Group • Social Inequality • Social Science • Sociology • Soft Skills • Staffing • Standardization • statistical significance • Stories Employers Tell • Supervisor • Temp • temp agencies • temporary help • Temporary work • temps • The Mismatched Worker • The Part-time Paradox • Uncertainty • Unemployment • wage • Wealth Management • white people • Work and Employment • Work Ethic • Workforce • work for hire • Working Poor • Work–Life Balance • workplace
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20007-6 / 0691200076
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20007-1 / 9780691200071