Prof. Aaron Kay says new research will help firms place vets in the right roles and environments
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Common stereotypes about veterans and their skills might limit their chances to excel once they leave the military and join the civilian workforce.
Social psychologist Aaron Kay, a management professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, suggests that if scholars approach research about military veterans the same way they study biases related to gender, class and race, those insights could help employers hire veterans in better-suited roles and retain them longer as employees.
[This article has been reproduced with permission from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. This piece originally appeared on Duke Fuqua Insights]