In search of the suitable candidate: the role of status, upstream and downstream diversity in recruitment partnerships

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad024

Kristen Tzoc, Neha Gondal

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Abstract

We conceptualize recruitment partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and accounting firms as a social network. While elite closure is known to be typical of such relationships, we posit that commitments to improving organizational diversity should curtail this tendency. Yet, whereas diversity in employee recruitment is culturally institutionalized, there are no imperatives encouraging HEIs to partner with diverse firms, what we call ‘downstream diversity’. We hypothesize this differentiation should lead elite companies to form more diverse partnerships with HEIs than HEIs do with firms. Our analysis confirms elite HEIs mostly partner with prestigious companies. The latter partner across the status spectrum, but recruitment from lower-status HEIs is for less desirable jobs. We also find elite establishments in both fields are unlikely to partner with organizations with high representation of Black persons. We conclude that (a) recruitment partnerships reproduce status distinctions, (b) firms are failing to meet diversity commitments and (c) downstream diversity needs to be incorporated into HEI diversity management toolkits.

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寻找合适的候选人:地位的作用，招聘伙伴关系中的上游和下游多样性

我们将高等教育机构(HEIs)和会计师事务所之间的招聘伙伴关系概念化为一个社会网络。虽然精英封闭被认为是这种关系的典型，但我们认为，致力于改善组织多样性应该会抑制这种趋势。然而，尽管员工招聘的多样性在文化上是制度化的，但没有必要鼓励高等教育机构与多样化的公司合作，我们称之为“下游多样性”。我们假设，这种差异应该会导致精英公司与高等教育机构的合作关系比高等教育机构与公司的合作关系更加多样化。我们的分析证实，精英高等教育机构大多与知名企业合作。后者的合作伙伴遍及社会各阶层，但从地位较低的高等教育机构招聘的是不太理想的工作。我们还发现，这两个领域的精英机构不太可能与黑人比例较高的组织合作。我们得出结论:(a)招聘伙伴关系再现了地位差异;(b)公司未能履行多样性承诺;(c)下游多样性需要纳入HEI多样性管理工具包。

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