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Talent Management

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Talent Management

Unconscious biases often prevent employers from hiring and retaining women and other underrepresented groups. Explore the interventions that both help women navigate these innate barriers in workplace and find out how institutions can "debias" their organizational processes.

Breadwinner Bonus and Caregiver Penalty in Workplace Rewards for Men and Women

When working mothers are seen as breadwinners, they are offered higher salaries and more leadership training opportunities in the workplace.

Julia B. Bear, Peter Glick (2017)

It's fair for us: Diversity structures cause women to legitimize discrimination

The presence of diversity programs (such as diversity training or affirmative action) makes it more difficult for women to detect sexism, than when diversity structures are absent.

Laura M. Brady, Cheryl R. Kaiser, Brenda Major, Teri A. Kirby (2015)

A Network’s Gender Composition and Communication Pattern Predict Women’s Leadership Success

Women are more likely to be placed into high level leadership positions if they are centrally located in their social network and have a female-dominated inner circle.

Yang Yang, Nitesh V. Chawla, Brian Uzzi (2019)

Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories

Being in a job that underutilizes a person's skills is as damaging to a person's work history as a year of unemployment, and men are penalized for having part-time employment histories while women are not.

David Pedulla (2016)

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Reminders of historic injustices against women increase men’s denial of current gender discrimination, thereby decreasing their support for employment equity policies that aim to promote the hiring of women.

Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson (2020)

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen (2019)

More Than Public Service: A Field Experiment on Job Advertisements and Diversity in the Police

Advertisements that emphasize the personal benefits of applying to government jobs are effective in eliciting diverse candidates to apply.

Elizabeth Linos (2018)

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a field experiment addressing social identity

De-biasing job application messaging can remove perceived barriers to success that prevent women from entering the technology workforce.

Lucía Del Carpio, Maria Guadalupe (2019)

A gender bias habit-breaking intervention led to increased hiring of female faculty in STEMM departments

An intervention treating gender bias as a changeable habit led to more gender-balanced hiring of university faculty over the next two years.

Patricia G. Devine, Patrick Forscher, William T. L. Cox, Anna Kaatz, Jennifer Sheridan, Molly Carnes (2017)

The Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution: A Cluster Randomized, Controlled Trial

A habit-breaking approach to gender bias led to behavioral changes and improved work climate among university faculty.

Molly Carnes, Patricia G. Devine, Linda Baier Manwell, Angela Byars-Winston, Eve Fine, Cecilia E. Ford, Patrick Forscher, Carol Isaac, Anna Kaatz, Wairimu Magua, Mari Palta, Jennifer Sheridan (2015)

Topic Overview

Talent Management

It's fair for us: Diversity structures cause women to legitimize discrimination

The presence of diversity programs (such as diversity training or affirmative action) makes it more difficult for women to detect sexism, than when diversity structures are absent.

Laura M. Brady, Cheryl R. Kaiser, Brenda Major, Teri A. Kirby (2015)

Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories

David Pedulla (2016)

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen (2019)

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a field experiment addressing social identity

De-biasing job application messaging can remove perceived barriers to success that prevent women from entering the technology workforce.

Lucía Del Carpio, Maria Guadalupe (2019)

The Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution: A Cluster Randomized, Controlled Trial

A habit-breaking approach to gender bias led to behavioral changes and improved work climate among university faculty.

Molly Carnes, Patricia G. Devine, Linda Baier Manwell, Angela Byars-Winston, Eve Fine, Cecilia E. Ford, Patrick Forscher, Carol Isaac, Anna Kaatz, Wairimu Magua, Mari Palta, Jennifer Sheridan (2015)

Breadwinner Bonus and Caregiver Penalty in Workplace Rewards for Men and Women

When working mothers are seen as breadwinners, they are offered higher salaries and more leadership training opportunities in the workplace.

Julia B. Bear, Peter Glick (2017)

A Network’s Gender Composition and Communication Pattern Predict Women’s Leadership Success

Women are more likely to be placed into high level leadership positions if they are centrally located in their social network and have a female-dominated inner circle.

Yang Yang, Nitesh V. Chawla, Brian Uzzi (2019)

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson (2020)

More Than Public Service: A Field Experiment on Job Advertisements and Diversity in the Police

Advertisements that emphasize the personal benefits of applying to government jobs are effective in eliciting diverse candidates to apply.

Elizabeth Linos (2018)

A gender bias habit-breaking intervention led to increased hiring of female faculty in STEMM departments

An intervention treating gender bias as a changeable habit led to more gender-balanced hiring of university faculty over the next two years.

Patricia G. Devine, Patrick Forscher, William T. L. Cox, Anna Kaatz, Jennifer Sheridan, Molly Carnes (2017)