Biases That Affect Hiring & Firing
Evidence-based research has shown us several biases exist within modern hiring and firing. Here are a few of them.
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Many biases about people exist in organizations that have a heavy impact on the hiring and firing process. Three very impactful ones are implicit personality theory, confirmation bias, and similarity bias. Implicit personality bias has to do with how our brains link observed behavior to unobserved behavior and assume both exist. This can be seen when energetic people are considered…