Beauty-ism

Beauty-ism

Beauty-ism in Workplace

Beauty-ism is a concept where companies show biasness towards good looking and attractive people in hiring over knowledge and qualification. Study has showed that people who are considered to be more attractive are likely to get preference for a job, or might get promoted sooner. A person who is overweight, has disfigured or unsymmetrical facial features, has thinning hair, is disabled, or is older is considered to be less capable, less confident, or less intelligent as compared to someone who is slim, whole, smooth feature, thick haired and young. The qualities usually considered attractive facial features include regular, normal weight, above average height, clear skin and healthy-looking hair. Even culturally, men with square jaws and broad shoulders and women with hourglass figures appear more attractive to others (Jawahar & Mattsson, 2005). Attractiveness can help you in the workplace, giving you advantages for both hiring and salary.

Beautiful People have more chances of getting a job since interviewer rate a candidate's good looks more favorable. This is true even if the job does not require contact with the public. However, the attraction has a smaller effect for applicants with qualifications above average.

Once hired, best looking people earn more on average. According to Forbes magazine, the attraction brings an increase of 5 percent in profits. Taller than the average male receives a premium of 6 percent on average peers. A woman 5-foot-7 also earn $ 5,250 more per year. However, negative physical traits diminish the power gain. Lower than average men receive four percent less in salary than those with average height, and obese women suffer a loss of 5 per cent in wages. Unattractiveness generally provides a wage loss in the range 7 to 9 percent.

Physical attractiveness can work against both employed male and female at the time of review. Employers consider employees as looking good not because of their own deficiencies, but see less attractive workers as victims of circumstance. Besides co-workers see often very attractive as self-cantered and even resent them. Finally, those with appearances sometimes rely on those superstars looks instead of putting forth the effort same average-looking workers.

Chair's Behavior from a HRM Perspective

In a scenario where Chair is overlooking a more highly qualified candidate in favor of a candidate who personally met with the Chair. The chair seems quite 'taken with the lesser-qualified candidate and other department members are worried about his criteria for making the selection. The behavior of Chair from human resource management seems to be biased in hiring candidate. Chair is giving priority to physical appearance who he has already met instead of individuals who are unknown to him. In his perspective, looks and features overshadow skills, knowledge and education. Recruiting the hiring process is a big responsibility that must be taken really seriously as the there are many consequences if the hiring goes wrong. This behavior by the chair shows the level of ethics that is being demonstrated in this organization. It does not really reflect well on the level of HR ...