THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION AND COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS ON APPLICANT POOL COMPOSITION AND ETHNIC GROUP TEST SCORE DIFFERENCES IN PUBLIC SAFETY SELECTION Anderson, Rebecca C. adverse impact applicant behavior diversity organization reputation personnel selection Efforts to increase minority hiring rely on having a large pool of qualified minority candidates. The current study examined the effects of police department reputation (as reflected in news stories), workforce demographics, and community demographics (i.e., the proportion and segregation of minorities in the community) on minority representation among applicants to police jobs, as well as adverse impact on a police selection test. Only negative department reputation predicted test score, although it was not related to adverse impact. However, the size of group differences did vary significantly across police departments. Implications for future research and for practice are discussed. Ph.D. in Psychology, May 2017 Morris, Scott B. 2017 2017-05 Dissertation application/pdf islandora:6492 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/4155 PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access