Halo Effect in Hiring

Halo Effect in Hiring

Introduction

The halo effect refers to a cognitive bias whereby the perception of a particular trait is influenced by the perception of above features in a sequence of interpretations.

Halo effect has significant interaction between business justification and applicant attractiveness on selection decisions. Specifically, individuals given the business justification are more likely to hire attractive applicants over unattractive applicants are equally likely to be hired.

The concept of physical attractiveness also undermined when we apply ourselves, as several studies have shown that the correlation between how you see attractive people themselves and how others see them is very low, i.e. we overestimated with respect to our physical attractiveness.

Discussion

A business justification for basing a hiring decision on a non job-related factor (i.e. attractiveness), unattractive applicants were more likely to be seen as qualified, be hired, and given higher starting salaries than attractive applicants. For males, attractive males were rated as more qualified, were more likely to be hired and were offered higher starting salaries. Thus, differential subjective appraisals still appear to be operating in the selection process. In addition, there were consistent effects for gender with males being rated higher than females although the resumes were all designed to be equivalent. The gender bias related to the “beauty is beastly” effect may be stronger and more pervasive than previously believed. Irrespective of the recent surge in the attention given to legality in personnel decisions, attractiveness appears to remain an integral component of selection processes. From a practical standpoint, HR managers, and all those involved in the hiring process, should be trained to recognize and avoid these biases, and upper management should be aware of the subtle, rather than overt, influence that can unintentionally affect selection decisions.

Physical attractiveness is very important to society today. Therefore, in 1960, scientists studied the effect of discovering that it was very important in social interaction: the more attractive you are, you will see more positive people.

Although the company insists on believing to know the individual characteristics based on information given by the physical appearance does not have to be no relationship between it and the specific attributes of a person. However, the result is the advantage for attractive people and disadvantage to those who are less so.

Therefore, the overall assumption about the physical attractiveness denies the popular saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Both men and women think that a person with physical attractiveness is more efficient in their work, giving them a more favorable assessment. In this regard, the lowest level of physical attractiveness are at a disadvantage, because when faced with a job interview face to face the person is determined by this point, without giving an option to demonstrate their proficiency in the vacancy. In the labor field determined by the physical attractiveness of men are watching the facial features, height and weight, although the women who are more account has this variable. Although they cannot be legislated discrimination based on race, sex or religion to apply ...