lecture 10.2 fairness in hiring

Question 1

Fairness vs discrimination

Answer 1

discrimination: treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc

Religion, gender, ethnicity, social status, sexual orientation

Example: coming out related to the chances of being fired

Question 2

How to achieve fairness in hiring

Answer 2

distributive justice: qualifications for a job (input) = selection decisions (output)

Procedural justice: fair and valid procedures

Possible trade-off between fairness and validity

Valid procedures (cognitive abliity tests, drug screens, biographical inventories, personality tests, perceived as unfair

less valid procedures (unstructured interviews) perceived as fair/procedural + interactional justice

To overcome the trade-off: voice, transparency, biases suppression

Question 3

Fairness in hiring: merit

Answer 3

fairness is respected if you hire the more qualified - just decision

It is universally considered just that each person should obtain that (whether good or evil) which he deserves; and unjust that he should obtain a good, or be made to undergo an evil, which he does not deserve.. This is perhaps the clearest and most emphathic form in which the idea of justice is conceived by the general mind. As it involves the idea of desert, the question arises of what consititutes desert.