Hiring, Algorithms, and Choice: Why Interviews Still Matter

IF 3.4 2区 哲学 Q2 BUSINESS
Vikram R. Bhargava, Pooria Assadi
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Abstract

Why do organizations conduct job interviews? The traditional view of interviewing holds that interviews are conducted, despite their steep costs, to predict a candidate’s future performance and fit. This view faces a twofold threat: the behavioral and algorithmic threats. Specifically, an overwhelming body of behavioral research suggests that we are bad at predicting performance and fit; furthermore, algorithms are already better than us at making these predictions in various domains. If the traditional view captures the whole story, then interviews seem to be a costly, archaic human resources procedure sustained by managerial overconfidence. However, building on T. M. Scanlon’s work, we offer the value of choice theory of interviewing and argue that interviews can be vindicated once we recognize that they generate commonly overlooked kinds of noninstrumental value. On our view, interviews should thus not be entirely replaced by algorithms, however sophisticated algorithms ultimately become at predicting performance and fit.
招聘、算法和选择:为什么面试仍然很重要
为什么组织要进行面试?传统的面试观点认为,尽管面试成本很高,但面试是为了预测候选人未来的表现和适合程度。这种观点面临着双重威胁:行为威胁和算法威胁。具体来说,大量的行为研究表明,我们不善于预测表现和契合度;此外,在许多领域,算法已经比我们更擅长做出这些预测。如果传统观点抓住了整个故事,那么面试似乎是一种昂贵的、过时的人力资源程序,由管理层的过度自信维持。然而,在T. M.斯坎伦工作的基础上,我们提出了面试的选择价值理论,并认为,一旦我们认识到面试产生了通常被忽视的非工具价值,面试就可以被证明是正确的。在我们看来,面试不应该完全被算法所取代,尽管复杂的算法最终会在预测表现和契合度方面发挥作用。
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10.00%
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期刊介绍: Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to the ethics of business. Since 1991 this multidisciplinary journal has published articles and reviews on a broad range of topics, including the internal ethics of business organizations, the role of business organizations in larger social, political and cultural frameworks, and the ethical quality of market-based societies and market-based relationships. It recognizes that contributions to the better understanding of business ethics can come from any quarter and therefore publishes scholarship rooted in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields.
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