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Seeming Ethical Makes You Attractive: Unraveling How Ethical Perceptions Of Ai In Hiring Impacts Organizational Innovativeness And Attractiveness, Serge P. Da Motta Veiga, Maria Figueroa-Armijos, Brent B. Clark

Marketing & Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

More organizations use AI in the hiring process than ever before, yet the perceived ethicality of such processes seems to be mixed. With such variation in our views of AI in hiring, we need to understand how these perceptions impact the organizations that use it. In two studies, we investigate how ethical perceptions of using AI in hiring are related to perceptions of organizational attractiveness and innovativeness. Our findings indicate that ethical perceptions of using AI in hiring are positively related to perceptions of organizational attractiveness, both directly and indirectly via perceptions of organizational innovativeness, with variations depending on the …