Bemelmans, Martijn (2022) Integrating organizational and individual factors to explain hiring of newcomers in the Netherlands. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This thesis aimed to investigate and integrate organizational and individual factors of managers to explain newcomer hiring intentions in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these factors (mostly studied alone) were positively linked to more diverse hiring. Managers indicated equally high intentions to hire Syrian and Afghan newcomers as well as Ukrainian newcomers. Further, from the organizational factors, previous hiring experience, diversity management practices, and difficulty in finding personnel significantly predicted newcomer hiring intentions. Previous hiring experience was, as hypothesized, the strongest predictor of the organizational factors. From the individual factors, universalism and intercultural sensitivity significantly predicted newcomer hiring intentions. However, when we integrated all organizational and individual factors into one model, with the organizational factors entered first, the individual factors did not account for a significant change in variance explained with regard to hiring Syrian and Afghan newcomers. The integrated model was non-significant with regard to Ukrainian newcomers These results suggest that policymakers that want to improve newcomer hiring, can use two approaches: focusing on organizations that show promising characteristics (e.g. pervious hiring experience) and focusing on improving managers’ individual factors (e.g. intercultural sensitivity).
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hansen, N. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2022 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2022 13:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/868 |
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