Measuring Attraction to Organizations

Highhouse, Scott; Lievens, Filip; Sinar, Evan F.

doi:10.1177/0013164403258403

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“…General attractiveness is an individiual's initial attitude toward a company as a potential place of work, while prestige reflects social status of the organization such as reputation, popularity, and status (Highhouse, Lievens, & Sinar, 2003). Therefore, the results of this study showed that when considering a company as a place of work, students pay more attention to its reputation instead of their initial attitude.…”

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“…OA was divided to 3 facets: general attractiveness, intention to pursue, and prestige (Highhouse, Lievens, & Sinar, 2003). These 3 facets were developed from several researches and then constructed to be a scale.…”

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“…To measure attraction, we used the Organization Attraction Scale which was developed by Highhouse, Lievens, & Sinar (2003). It consisted of 15 Likert scale items, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree.…”

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The Organizational Attraction at Company-owned University

Rocky¹,

Dahesihsari²

2016

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This study took place in a university established by a company. The aim of this study is to investigate factors which may influence the university students' affect toward the parent company. The construct of interest is organizational attraction, which is the positive attitude of an individual regarding an organization. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods were used in this study. The total number of participants in this study was 161 (60 males, 101 females; 84 students who never worked before, 64 worked part time, 13 have worked full time). Results showed the students had neutral attitude toward the organization as a workplace. This indicates that the students do not necessarily prefer the parent company to other companies. Other findings showed the first year students have higher level of organizational attraction compared to final year students, presumably due to word of mouth by the lecturers. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada mahasiswa di universitas yang didirikan oleh sebuah perusahaan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apa yang membuat mahasiswa di universitas tertarik

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2016

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“…of Highhouse, Lievens, and Sinar (2003) on 7-point Likert-type scales ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).…”

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Outsiders’ Perceptions Of Diversity Mixed Messages

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Bowes

Kidder

et al. 2016

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To attract a gender diverse workforce, many employers use diversity statements to publicly signal that they value gender diversity. However, this often represents a misalignment between words and actions (i.e., a diversity mixed message) because most organizations are male dominated, especially in board positions. We conducted 3 studies to investigate the potentially indirect effect of such diversity mixed messages through perceived behavioral integrity on employer attractiveness. In Study 1, following a 2 ϫ 2 design, participants (N ϭ 225) were either shown a pro gender diversity statement or a neutral statement, in combination with a gender diverse board (4 men and 4 women) or a uniform all-male board (8 men). Participants' perceived behavioral integrity of the organization was assessed. In Study 2, participants (N ϭ 251) either read positive or negative reviews of the organization's behavioral integrity. Employer attractiveness was then assessed. Study 3 (N ϭ 427) investigated the impact of board gender composition on perceived behavioral integrity and employer attractiveness using a bootstrapping procedure. Both the causal-chain design of Study 1 and 2, as well as the significance test of the proposed indirect relationship in Study 3, revealed that a diversity mixed message negatively affected an organization's perceived behavioral integrity, and low behavioral integrity in turn negatively impacted employer attractiveness. In Study 3, there was also evidence for a tipping point (more than 1 woman on the board was needed) with regard to participants' perceptions of the organization's behavioral integrity.

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“…Five items which have received most attention from previous studies on attraction to organization (Scott Highhouse, FilipLievens & Even F. Sinar, 2003) [8] were used in this study to measure organizational attraction. The example is "For me, this company would be a good place to work."…”

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The Effect of Online Review about Company on Organizational Attraction and Application Intention

Bao¹,

Wang²,

Ding³

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)

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Abstract. Online review from social networks has been an influential resource of information for job seekers to know more about companies they interested. This leads us to suppose that online review about companies may influence organizational attractiveness to job seekers and their initial decisions. To confirm our hypotheses, we conducted a study based on 127 responses to a questionnaire especially designed to examine. The results indicate that online review is positively related to organizational attraction to job candidates and ultimately influencing their application intention. The previous study of factors influencing job seeker's initial decision and organizational attraction focused on the perspective of company, such as company's brand or image, features of organizational website. Little is from the electronic word-of-mouth perspective. This paper is just to fill the vacancy area and make a further validation about the importance of electronic word of mouth for company. Moreover, few suggestions are given to companies and job seekers for reference.

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Measuring Attraction to Organizations

Cited by 627 publications

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The Organizational Attraction at Company-owned University

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