Biases and Judgement

To : Mr . Supervisor

From : Dept . Assoc . Dir The Dept Hiring Manager (Write a person 's name

Date : July 31 , 2010

Re : Biases and Judgment in the Hiring Process

Recently , a new case manager for the radiology department in the hospital was hired . In order to maintain the good name of the hospital our honored organization , and for it to stand for its very highly valued services and unequalled reputation , it is only inherent that we evaluate our practices . In this regard , yours truly is making a self-evaluation process as to the

dignity and reasonability on the decision to hire Mr Smith as a case manager over the rest of the eight final candidates

Deciding as to which one to choose among the many outstanding candidates was a difficult ordeal . Aside from this obvious task on selecting which , among the original seventeen (17 ) applicants , and narrowing them into eight (8 ) final candidates , is the best and the most suitable case-manager-to-be , there are other issues at hand that need to be addressed given my position . The two most dominant of these issues that yours truly needed to strongly consider are biases and egocentrism Although Barton (2001 ) noted that "everyone has biases , it is not an excuse not to minimize it or be aware of it and prevent it from happening . On the other hand , egocentrism happens when one can only view the world from their perspective and finds it difficult to understand any other (Oakley 18 ) Biases and egocentrism are so inherent...