Physical Appearance and Job

Physical Appearance and Job

  • Submitted By: Boshir
  • Date Submitted: 03/10/2009 7:03 PM
  • Category: Psychology
  • Words: 539
  • Page: 3
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Physical appearance can affect one’s carrier in 2009, confirms Anne Bourhis professor at Montreal HEC also the recruitment and selection specialist at the human resources department. The criteria vary in every domain. People with piercing and colored hair are more demanded in creative works than traditional ones. Look plays an important role when the individual represent a company. In some cases the promotion for certain job requires that the candidate has the outfit required for the job. Firms are allowed to select their candidates to meet their criteria as long as there in no discrimination against gender, skin color, or weight. The author, Martine Letarte, emphasizes that physical appearance and unusual dressing style can hurt one’s carrier and can create an obstacle finding the desired employment. Letarte interviews Psychologist Louise Beaudoin who confirmed that dress reflects what the individual is and shows his capacity to adapt with a work place environment. Letarte insists on her idea with presenting a survey done in France on 2005 by Jean-Francois Amadieu director of L’observatoire des discriminations. The survey concluded that age, ethnicity and physical appearance influences recruitment.
Chapter 16 of the textbook Living Psychology- talks about recruitment and selection but it is not included in the class textbook therefore I have chosen Module 14.3 of the text book which focuses on the issue of social influence under subtitle Conformity-Going Along with Others. According to the textbook the definition of conformity is “changing behavior as a result of real or imagined group pressure” (Huffman, p 556). The textbook explains that people adapt and adjust their behavior to be accepted in a group. Similarly, Letarte explains in her article that some people change their physical appearances or norms in order to get accepted in a group. She clarifies this idea by providing an example of Andreanne who had to remove some of her visual piercings to be...

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