Moral Values Fit: Do Applicants Really Care?

This article tests whether applicant-company moralvalues-fit has a significant effect on applicantdecisions to apply for work with the company. Theauthor surveys a large sample of business schoolgraduate students regarding their moral values. Company values are measured using content analysis ofrecr...

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Main Author: Scott, Elizabeth D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2000
In: Teaching business ethics
Year: 2000, Volume: 4, Issue: 4, Pages: 405-435
Further subjects:B fit moral values
B Recruitment
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Summary:This article tests whether applicant-company moralvalues-fit has a significant effect on applicantdecisions to apply for work with the company. Theauthor surveys a large sample of business schoolgraduate students regarding their moral values. Company values are measured using content analysis ofrecruitment materials. Application decisions areactual decisions by the students to interview duringthe school's recruitment period. The results suggestthat the values of the companies and the fit of thosevalues with those of the students are both importantto students’ decisions to apply.
ISSN:1573-1944
Contains:Enthalten in: Teaching business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1009879924388