A model replication with an extension of students´perception of prospective employer attractiveness
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Competitiveness |
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| Web | https://www.cjournal.cz/index.php?hid=clanek&bid=archiv&cid=322&cp= |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.7441/joc.2019.02.01 |
| Keywords | human resources; employer branding; recruiting; employer attractiveness; corporate reputation; social media |
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| Description | In the light of a long-term rising focus on human resources as the essential for a competitive advantage of the organisations, human resource management intersects with marketing policies and tools to help organisations to attract and retain potential employees. Therefore the paper attempted to replicate a model by Sivertzen et al. (2013) which investigate the factors of em-ployer branding strategies. The study tested the relationships between the dimension of em-ployer attractiveness scale and the use of social media in relation to applying for a job and to corporate reputation. The model is replicated with extension of different industries and was tested on two larger samples compared to the original paper. An electronic questionnaire was distributed to computer science students and students of economics at universities in the Czech Republic. The model is analysed on the basis of 337 responses related to three well-known com-puter-based companies and 290 responses related to three well-known economics-based com-panies operating on the Czech market. The analysis was processed in R statistical software using the structural equation modelling. The purpose of the replication with extension is to verify the original results and provide additional evidence that helps to build a cumulative body of know-ledge when building essentials of emerging human resource marketing field. The findings indicate that several employer attractiveness attributes could have a positive relation to corporate re-putation. However, it differs between industries. The validation of the employer attractiveness scale resulted in different dimensions than in the original study. New dimensions with different indicators are proposed. The positive relation between the use of social media and corporate reputation, use of social media and intentions to apply for a job and as well corporate reputation and intentions to apply for a job are suggested by the results. |
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