Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Recruitment of Technically Educated Employees

• Authors: Martin Polívka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The influence of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept on the business performance has been widely discussed recently. According to some researches, respecting CSR could make the responsible company more attractive to quality job-seekers. At the same time, there is a great lack of technically skilled specialists both globally and more important the Czech economy. The aim of this paper is to investigate, whether the technically educated talents take the issue of CSR into account when making decisions about their future employers and therefore, whether the implementation of CSR into the company policy means an advantage in the recruitment for a responsible firm. Questionnaires distributed among the final-year students of technical study programs were chosen as a research method. The results obtained suggest that the technically educated talents consider the issue of CSR to be quite important and that they would deffinitely prefer an employer who respects this concept. Implementing of the corporate social responsibility idea into the corporate strategy can therefore improve the human resources management of the enterprise with a positive effect on the whole business performance.

Keywords

EN

corporate social responsibility (CSR); human resources; recruitment; triple-bottom line

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• Journal: Littera Scripta
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 128-139

Dates

published

2013-06-28

Contributors

author

Martin Polívka

• University of West Bohemia

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