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'Associate professors Andrew Timming FCAHR and Chris Baumann, and senior professor of management Paul Gollan have found that appearance-based bias - known within the world of recruitment - also dictates whether or not employees will be listened to by their managers...
"[In our research] attractiveness is measured against a database of faces with some basic demographic information, then each face is rated by 2,600 other respondents on a scale," says Timming...Participants made of 289 managers, were shown the faces of people aged 20-30. Older faces were excluded as age is negatively correlated with attractiveness, according to the report.
Managers were then presented with scenarios like: "Imagine an employee walks into your office and makes a suggestion about how an operational process could be improved. How likely would you be to take their advice?". They were then shown two faces, one attractive and one less attractive, with a variety in gender and race.
Managers were then asked, on a scale of 1-7, how likely they'd be to act on employee's suggestion: 1 being not likely, 7 being extremely likely.
Surprisingly, female voices were listened to more than male voices, and there was no difference between white and non-white employees.
It was only when the introduction of an attractive variable was introduced that Timming and his team noticed a difference...
Interestingly, the gender of the managers played no part in their decision ; female and male managers were equally as likely to ignore less attractive employees."
Https://www.hrmonline.com.au/research/unattractive-people-ignored-work-research/
"[In our research] attractiveness is measured against a database of faces with some basic demographic information, then each face is rated by 2,600 other respondents on a scale," says Timming...Participants made of 289 managers, were shown the faces of people aged 20-30. Older faces were excluded as age is negatively correlated with attractiveness, according to the report.
Managers were then presented with scenarios like: "Imagine an employee walks into your office and makes a suggestion about how an operational process could be improved. How likely would you be to take their advice?". They were then shown two faces, one attractive and one less attractive, with a variety in gender and race.
Managers were then asked, on a scale of 1-7, how likely they'd be to act on employee's suggestion: 1 being not likely, 7 being extremely likely.
Surprisingly, female voices were listened to more than male voices, and there was no difference between white and non-white employees.
It was only when the introduction of an attractive variable was introduced that Timming and his team noticed a difference...
Interestingly, the gender of the managers played no part in their decision ; female and male managers were equally as likely to ignore less attractive employees."
Https://www.hrmonline.com.au/research/unattractive-people-ignored-work-research/