Borstelmann, Clara (2023) An Examination of Perceptions of Fairness, Organizational attractiveness and Agreeableness in Game-Based Assessments. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Reactions and attitudes towards selection procedures have been widely studied in the field of organizational psychology. Especially the perception of fairness in an assessment procedure is in focus because it may have an impact on the applicant’s perception of the organization. Newer strategies for assessing applicants are game-based assessments (GBA). In our study, we were interested whether previous findings about the perception of fairness can be applied to a GBA. We hypothesized that fairness perception is significantly linked to organizational attractiveness in a GBA context. Further, we examined whether there is a link between the personality characteristic agreeableness of the Big Five and fairness perception in a GBA. Our sample consisted of 192 people we recruited through the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and through social media, especially among students. The survey consisted of questions on the participants’ level of agreeableness, level of fairness perception and organizational attractiveness perception, where after participants were asked to complete two game-based assessments. We conducted two simple linear regression analyses which indicated a significant relationship between fairness perception and organizational attractiveness. For our second hypothesis, we did not find a significant link between agreeableness and fairness perception which opposes most findings of previous studies. Our results support previous literature findings of a relationship between fairness perception and organizational attractiveness and add to the research on GBAs. Keywords: Game-based assessment (GBA), Fairness perception, Agreeableness, Organizational attractiveness
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Adams, S.P. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2023 10:18 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2023 10:18 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1624 |
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