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Mean manager demographic similarity
Population mean similarity between employees and managers on gender/ethnic-minority/generation cohort comparisons.
How it’s computed
AVG(manager_demographic_similarity)
What the evidence shows
Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.
Run it on your data
This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.
sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“The absolute magnitude of the percentile scores may be biased by associates who have a tendency to avoid 1 or 5 in responding to any question or by a tendency to use only 1 or 5 in responding to items. It may also be biased by a tendency in the organization itself to rate…”
— Diagnosing Changing Org Culturematch 52%
“This also exacerbates the issue regarding the comparison of a small office with two large offices.CHAPTER 4 MEASURES OF LOCATION 4.1 Number99Mode50,000Median65,000Mean66,364Trimmed mean (n = 89)65,652 4.2 Skewed positively with a tail to the right, because the mean is more than…”
— Statistics for Compensationmatch 51%
“Thus, your company is not diverse if only 2 ethnic group are represented compared with 4 ethnic groups (i.e. low in richness), and if you have 97 members in 1 ethnic group and 1 member in each of 3 other ethnic groups (i.e. low in evenness). Assuming there are two companies.…”
— Predictive HR Analyticsmatch 51%
Resources: Diagnosing Changing Org Culture · Statistics for Compensation · Predictive HR Analytics