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Employers' Recruitment Behaviour: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Personnel Management Attitudes[Note 1. The research has been sponsored by the Economic Research ...]
Author(s) -
Russo Giovanni,
Gorter Cees,
Nijkamp Peter,
Rietveld Piet
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00052
Subject(s) - spell , business , channel (broadcasting) , set (abstract data type) , human resource management , marketing , economics , management , computer science , computer network , sociology , anthropology , programming language
The practical importance of recruitment is witnessed by the existence of specific personnel management functions within firms. The aim of the paper is to investigate the importance of firms' personnel management attitudes for recruitment procedures. We focus on the choice of the first search channel and on the subsequent search spell. The model is empirically estimated by using a data set on recruitment behaviour of Dutch firms. The results show that personnel management considerations are important for the choice of the recruitment channel. It appears that advertisement is preferred to the informal channel in that employers believe it is faster and generates applicants who better comply with the hiring standards. Furthermore, employers turn out to prefer mainly the informal channel when recruitment costs are considered important.