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A Mediated Moderation Model of Recruiting Socially and Environmentally Responsible Job Applicants
Author(s) -
Gully Stanley M.,
Phillips Jean M.,
Castellano William G.,
Han Kyongji,
Kim Andrea
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/peps.12033
Subject(s) - moderation , psychology , social psychology , bootstrapping (finance) , seekers , job performance , job characteristic theory , structural equation modeling , job attitude , process (computing) , test (biology) , corporate social responsibility , job analysis , social responsibility , work (physics) , compliance (psychology) , public relations , job satisfaction , business , mechanical engineering , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , finance , political science , computer science , law , biology , engineering , operating system
Socially and environmentally responsible organizations must attend to the fit of employees with the values of the organization. Recruiting practices are a key tool for ensuring fit with an organization's culture and values. We develop and test a model of the process through which recruitment information about an organization's social and environmental responsibility values differentially affect job seeker perceived fit, attraction, and job pursuit intentions depending on job seekers’ desire to have a significant impact through work. Our model of mediated moderation is tested with a sample of 339 actual job seekers using conditional process modeling and nonlinear bootstrapping techniques. Results support expectations that advertisement messages about an organization's social and environmental responsibility values interact with applicants’ desire to have a significant impact through work to influence job pursuit intentions through the hypothesized mediational process. Implications of the model for research on recruitment and organizational social and environmental responsibility are discussed.