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Exploringthe Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Employer Attractiveness

Brett A. Stone

Karl Heiner

State University of New York at New Paltz

Building on existing studies suggesting that corporate social performance (CSP) is important in the job choice process, the authors investigate job seekers’perceptions of importance of CSP and explore effects of CSP dimensions on organizational attractiveness. Job seekers consider CSP important to assessment of firms and rate five specific CSP dimensions (environment, community relations, employee relations, diversity, and product issues) as more important than six other CSP dimensions. Using signaling theory and social identity theory, the authors hypothesize differences in effects of CSP data on ratings of employer attractiveness and find that environment, community relations, and diversity dimensions have the largest affect on attractiveness ratings.

Business & Society, Vol. 41, No. 3, 292-318 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0007650302041003003


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