dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Veenstra, Esmee | |
dc.contributor.author | Kleene, Willem | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-09T03:02:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-09T03:02:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/42662 | |
dc.description.abstract | Organizations increasingly engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by conducting
business in ways that respect the social- and natural environment. When CSR engagement is
perceived as sincere, it can serve as a strong tool to attract prospective employees
(Crumpacker and Crumpacker, 2007; Kim & Park, 2011; Kumari et al., 2020). This study
examines whether this positive effect especially holds for people who care deeply about the
environment. Given that environmentally conscious individuals value the preservation of
natural resources, they are likely to be attracted to organizations whose CSR commitment
comes across as sincere. With an experimental between-subject design we examined whether
environmentally conscious individuals, in particular, are receptive to the sincerity of CSR
statements. Participants were asked to fill out a survey during which CSR engagement was
manipulated to evoke variety in perceived CSR sincerity. Surprisingly, environmental
consciousness did not increase job attraction towards socially responsible organizations.
Thus, more research is needed to confirm the important role of individual environmental
values in considering new job positions. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Environmental consciousness, Job
attractiveness | |
dc.title | The War on Talent: Examining Job Seekers' Environmental Values to Increase Job Attraction towards Socially Responsible Organizations | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Social, Health and Organisational Psychology | |
dc.thesis.id | 10184 | |