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Top employer awards : A double-edged sword?

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Überschaer, Anja ; Baum, Matthias:
Top employer awards : A double-edged sword?
In: European Management Journal. Bd. 38 (2020) Heft 1 . - S. 146-156.
ISSN 0263-2373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.06.004

Abstract

Organizations often use top employer awards to confirm their quality as employers via an independent third party. At first, the advantages of using awards seem apparent, such as giving the organization an edge in recruitment by increasing the organizational attractiveness for jobseekers. Possible disadvantages accompanying the use of awards have received little attention. We argue that awards can cause potential applicants to pay less attention to information provided in recruitment materials that allow them to assess their organizational fit. Therefore, we investigated the influence of awards on the relationship between person–organization fit and attraction to organization as well as application decision. We include the corporate brand awareness (unknown vs. well-known) as a boundary condition. The results of our experiment show that, while awards increase organizational attractiveness, they also reduce the effect of person–organization fit on organizational attractiveness in the case of well-known organizations. Moreover, we found that awards indirectly affect application decision in the same way. Hence, successful self-selection based on fit is disturbed in this situation. Consequently, the quality of the applicant pool is reduced, resulting in a disadvantage for the well-known recruiting organization. Contrary to expectations, unknown organizations do not appear to be affected by this downside and instead benefit from awards. Our study contributes to the literature in recruiting by focusing on how awards change the impact of other information, while also highlighting potential disadvantages of employer awards.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: Top employer awards; Person–organization fit; Recruitment
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl Betriebswirtschaftslehre XVI - Entrepreneurship und digitale Geschäftsmodelle > Lehrstuhl Betriebswirtschaftslehre XVI - Entrepreneurship und digitale Geschäftsmodelle - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Baum
Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl Betriebswirtschaftslehre XVI - Entrepreneurship und digitale Geschäftsmodelle
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Nein
Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
Eingestellt am: 06 Apr 2020 10:54
Letzte Änderung: 10 Aug 2020 10:12
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/54805