The addition of job-related information regarding an applicant's leadership ability reduced bias against female applicants applying for a managerial position.Research on sex bias in employment settings continues to demonstrate that many situational factors promote more favorable recommendations (e.g., hiring decisions, performance appraisals) for men than for women has developed a Lack of Fit Model to account for many of these differential evaluations in organizational settings. This model proposes that evaluations of job candidates and incumbents are determined by the perceived "fit" between characteristics of the individual being evaluated and the perceived job requirements. According to the model, a good fit between individual attributes and job requirements (e.g., an applicant's ability to assume a leadership role as a necessary requirement for a managerial position) will lead to expectations of success for an applicant, whereas a poor fit, (e.g., lack of evidence of an applicant's ability to lead others in a managerial position) will lead to expectations of failure for the applicant.Heilman's (1983) model has been useful in integrating sex discrimination research that has focused on a variety of situational variables and individual characteristics. For example, it has been used to account for the effect of physical attractiveness on hiring recommendations, personnel actions, and causal attributions (Heilman & Saruwatari, 1979;Heilman & Stopeck, 1985a, 1985b. It has also been used to explain the effect of information relevancy on employment decisions (Heilman, 1984).
A growing body of research investigates how intermediary organizations (IOs) and their networks navigate, promote, and produce evidence on social media. To date, scholars have underexplored blogs, an important milieu in which IOs produce and disseminate information. In this analysis, we broaden the emerging scholarship on evidence brokering by examining how IOs and individual and independent bloggers broker knowledge via education policy blogs on charter schools and related education policy. Although blogging can potentially enhance knowledge production and dissemination, our findings demonstrate that bloggers often promote research evidence of uneven quality and scientific rigor.
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