Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands
In today’s fast-changing and innovative world, startups must compete amongst themselves and other well-established companies to hire the best talent in order to succeed. Diversity within the recruitment process is typically not a priority, even though it is well known that a diverse team is beneficial for (business) outcomes. Through a multiple case study performed at 5 IT startups based in the Netherlands, we observed that gender bias is introduced from the first moment that the need for an employee has been identified until candidate hiring. This is a direct result from (1) a lack of resourc... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Part of book |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter: | Diversity & Inclusion / Gender bias / IT Startup(s) / Taverne / Management Information Systems / Control and Systems Engineering / Business and International Management / Information Systems / Modelling and Simulation / Information Systems and Management |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26836746 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/425272 |
In today’s fast-changing and innovative world, startups must compete amongst themselves and other well-established companies to hire the best talent in order to succeed. Diversity within the recruitment process is typically not a priority, even though it is well known that a diverse team is beneficial for (business) outcomes. Through a multiple case study performed at 5 IT startups based in the Netherlands, we observed that gender bias is introduced from the first moment that the need for an employee has been identified until candidate hiring. This is a direct result from (1) a lack of resources (e.g., time and money), (2) urgency to find the first and best candidate, or (3) the awareness of the startup founders.