Vianen, Eline (2023) Applicant Reactions to Game-Based Selection Procedures: The Roles of Job Relatedness and Opportunity to Perform. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Game-based assessments are a novel, yet promising development for selection procedures since they are an efficient way of testing candidates’ skills related to the job. Even if they are useful, an important aspect to consider is an applicants’ reaction to the assessment, since it might impact how they view the company. Using Gilliland’s organizational justice framework (1993), this paper aims to investigate the relationship between perceived job relatedness, perceived opportunity to perform, perceived fairness and organizational attractiveness, since the generalizability of this model to game-based assessments has not been much researched in previous studies. Therefore, the relationship between perceived fairness and organizational attractiveness in game-based assessment was examined, as well as how perceived job relatedness and perceived opportunity to perform affect this relationship. To test this, we conducted a cross-sectional correlational design in which participants (N = 103) read a fictitious job posting, played a short demo of a game-based assessment and filled in a questionnaire. Overall, results showed support for positive relationships between perceived opportunity to perform and perceived job relatedness, regarding perceived fairness. There was also a positive relationship between perceived fairness and organizational attractiveness. Perceived fairness fully mediated the relationship between perceived job relatedness and organizational attractiveness, but did not for perceived opportunity to perform and organizational attractiveness. In brief, this study supports the idea that the organizational justice framework remains valid when applied to game-based assessment.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Adams, S.P. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2023 09:18 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2023 09:18 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2679 |
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