Monday 30 July 2012

Graduates' reactions to recruitment process outsourcing: A scenario-based study

an article by Marius Claus Wehner, Angelo Giardini and RĂ¼diger Kabst (University of Giessen, Germany) published in Human Resource Management Volume 51 Issue 4 (July/August 2012)

Abstract

This study examines how successive outsourcing of recruitment activities to an external provider – also known as recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) – affects graduates’ reactions.

Using an experimental scenario technique, a total of 158 graduates participated in four hypothetical scenarios that have been developed as an experimental between-subject design.

Results provide support for negative effects of the extent of RPO on graduates’ satisfaction with the recruitment process and company attractiveness. More-over, mediated by graduates’ satisfaction with the recruitment process and company attractiveness, an increasing extent of RPO negatively influences job-acceptance intentions.
© 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


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