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The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23292 The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention Wocke, Albert upetd@up.ac.za Telfer, Alexis UCTD Corporations Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. 'Best Company To Work For’ surveys (BCTWF) promise to promote winners’ status as an “Employer of Choice” (Conradie, 2007) leading to increased employer branding, easier talent attraction and retention, improved employee engagement, and ultimately to improved financial results – all of which could be benchmarked against competitors through the survey results. Recent attempts to merge concepts from traditional marketing and HR practices led to the exciting new realm of employer and employee branding, however there was very little empirical evidence of how this could be achieved (Boyd&Sutherland, 2006). BCTWF surveys purport to be a common tool with which a company could address both the aspects of marketing and human resources, with a view toward improved business performance. This research investigated the value of BCTWF surveys through quantitative analysis of the data collected from a survey questionnaire (n=449). Factor analysis was employed to validate the structure and internal reliability of the instrument. ANOVA, post-hoc Scheffé test, chi-square test, tests of meaningfulness, and stub-and-banner tables were used to investigate the relation between ‘Best Company’ ranking and the independent variables. Of the four constructs, employer branding and employee engagement showed a positive relation to BCTWF ranking; while applicant attraction and employee retention did not show any relation. A BCTWF Value Model (Figure 10) was developed in response to the findings and current literature to assist managers with their decisionmaking related to BCTWF and strategic human resource management in the future. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:52:40Z 2010-06-08 2013-09-06T14:52:40Z 2009-04-01 2010-06-08 2010-03-17 Dissertation Telfer, A 2008, The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23292 > G10/102/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23292 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03172010-124033/ © 2008 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Corporations The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention |
| title | The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention |
| title_full | The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention |
| title_fullStr | The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention |
| title_full_unstemmed | The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention |
| title_short | The value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding, applicant attraction, employee engagement, and talent retention |
| title_sort | value of best company to work for surveys in employer branding applicant attraction employee engagement and talent retention |
| topic | UCTD Corporations |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23292 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03172010-124033/ |