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Dissertation
Resume Reviews and Perceived Qualifications of Job Candidates
University of West Florida Libraries
Doctor of Education (EDD), University of West Florida
2016
Abstract
Half a century after the enactment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, disparities in employment and hiring practices still exist (Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2003; Bradstreet & Kleiner, 2003; Ritenhouse, 2013). Evidence of such disparities in employment within the field of nursing is supported by the fact that 73% of nursing students are Caucasian and 13% are African American, while the entire nursing workforce is comprised of 83.2% Caucasians and 5.4% African Americans (National League for Nursing (NLN), 2013). This 9.6% under-representation of African American RNs in the workforce along with the potential for disparities in nursing employment to propagate, as a result of phenomena attributed to the underlying theory of relational demography (Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2003; Buckley, Jackson, Bolino, Veres, & Feild, 2007; Stoll, Raphael, & Holzer, 2004), both serve as the impetus for the current study. Employment studies have found inadvertent discrimination against minority group members as a function of minority sounding names as appearing on résumés (Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2003). Prior to the current study, this phenomenon remained unclear, underlying theories associated with such phenomena were not explained, and methodologies to reduce the occurrence of such phenomena were not published. Given the dearth of literature addressing employment disparities in the field of nursing, underlying theories to explain employment disparities in the field of nursing, and potential methodologies to reduce the occurrence of employment disparities in the field of nursing, the current study sought to begin to fill the void of knowledge. To address the issues of employment disparities among Registered Nurses (RNs) in the United States (US), the current study utilized volunteer student participants enrolled in a RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program to explore the implication of stereotypically Caucasian and African American female names on mock employment decisions and the use of web-based Frame of Reference (FOR) training to mitigate any occurrence of name-based employment disparities. Two research questions were posed and the theoretical and practical implications of the findings of the current study are discussed.
Details
- Title
- Resume Reviews and Perceived Qualifications of Job Candidates
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Contributors
- Carla J Thompson (Committee Member) - University of West Florida, School of EducationByron C Havard (Committee Member) - University of West Florida, School of EducationSusan Jans-Thomas (Committee Chair)
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 189
- Copyright
- © 2016 Michael Evangelos Kaloydis
- Identifiers
- 99380090848006600
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Doctor of Education (EDD)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Education (EDD), University of West Florida