Diversity and Gender in the Workplace
Drew Jacoby-Senghor, Professor
Business, Haas School
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
Some topics under investigation:
- Do perceptions of hiring criterion vary based on preference to maintain the status quo?
- Exploring the pitfalls of the hiring process and attempts to increase diversity
- Why do supervisors assign more diversity related tasks to racial minority and woman employees? What psychological cost does this have on those employees?
Role: Students will act as research assistants, which include tasks such as running experiments, data management, stimuli creation, survey creation, and other tasks involved in the production and publication of experimental social science research. Students will meet with grad students and attend weekly lab meetings, which will be held in conjunction with PhD students and other research assistants.
May be assisting in conducting a large-scale field experiment.
Qualifications: Looking especially for students interested in graduate school in Social Psychology, Management, and Organizational Behavior or a career in behavioral research.
Experience with SPSS/R or coding is preferred but not required.
Experience with python web scraping desired but not essential (please elaborate on experience in app).
Hours: 9-11 hrs
Related website: http://www.drewjacobysenghor.com/lab
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data Science