Cultural Differences in Prioritizing Applicant Attributes when Assessing Employment Suitability

• Main Authors: WEE, Serena, JONASON, Peter K., LI, Norman P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Context salience; Decision-making; Personality; Selection; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1455; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2711/viewcontent/CulturalDiffPrioritizingAppAttributes_WeeJonasonLi_2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examined how culture influences perceptions of applicant attributes when assessing employment suitability. In two studies (N = 408), we compared members from a collectivistic society (Singapore) to two samples from individualistic societies (the United States and Australia) on their perceptions o...