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Indecision in Employee Selection

Chang, Christopher S
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1381750837

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2013, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
The current study was conducted to uncover the antecedents to indecision in employee selection. Drawing on past research from the consumer decision-making literature, three potential antecedents to indecision were identified. These antecedents were dominance, missing information, and trait indecisiveness. Furthermore, option quality was examined as a moderator of the relationship between dominance and decision deferral. 981 workers from Amazon's Mechanical Turk participated in this study. The results show that there was higher deferral when there were no dominant candidates than when there was a dominant candidate. Moreover, option quality moderated the relationship between dominance and deferral such that dominance affected deferral in decisions between high quality applicants but not in decisions between low quality applicants. In addition, there was higher deferral when there was missing information in the profile of job candidates than when there was no missing information. However, trait indecisiveness did not significantly predict hiring deferral. The study’s implications for research and practice are discussed, and directions for future research are provided.
Margaret Brooks (Advisor)
Scott Highhouse (Committee Member)
Mary Hare (Committee Member)
48 p.
Organizational Behavior; Psychology
indecision; employee selection; decision deferral; decision making

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  • Chang, C. S. (2013). Indecision in Employee Selection [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1381750837

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chang, Christopher. Indecision in Employee Selection. 2013. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1381750837.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chang, Christopher. "Indecision in Employee Selection." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1381750837

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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