Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: The effect of attention to irrelevant information in personnel selection was investigated.Four groups of subjects were given general criteria required for a job and asked to review four applications for the job and rate the four applicants for employment:, first, without knowing the exact job title, and again, after being told the exact job title.Group one: was asked to attend to the general criteria.Group two was told what information was relevant and was asked to attend to that information^ Group three was told what information was irrelevant and was asked to attend to that information.A fourth group was asked to attend to both the relevant and irrelevant information.The results showed that subjects attending to irrelevant information, whether they knew the exact job title or not, rated applicants with a high profile of that information significantly different than subjects not attending to irrelevant information.The results also indicated that ratings for these applicants changed significantly when subjects, regardless of what information was attended to, were told the exact job title.The effect of attention to irrelevant information is discussed.Ill
Author: Travis Ralph Gibbs
Language: English
Topic: Employer Branding and e-HRM
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2626902014