Abstract

CASTILLO, Cristian. How old are you? are you married? do you have children? irrelevant questions and covert discrimination in personnel selection. Revista de Psicologia [online]. 2023, n.29, pp.109-135. ISSN 2223-3032.  https://doi.org/10.53287/soxr3745xw25h.

The selection of personnel has proven to be an invaluable procedure for organizations. However, in practice employers often (and prefer) to use the selection methods of scarce and questionable evidence. In the Bolivian context, the use of personal questions related to age, marital status, sex, race, pregnancy, among others, seems to be quite widespread. Although the usefulness that justifies its inclusion remains unproven. In this article, I analyze the relevance and support of personal questions based on their contribution to three purposes of personnel selection: validity to predict job performance, recruitment, and discrimination. Finally, I provide some suggestions: (1) to improve the efficiency of the selection processes, and (2) to amend and strengthen the laws against discrimination in the selection of Bolivian labor law.

Keywords : Personnel selection; Personal questions; Validity; Recruitment; Discrimination; Bolivia.

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