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The cultural aspects of MINT recruitment : how to overcome the skills shortage by understanding graduates' needs /
This study is based upon the assumption that in case of a shrinking workforce supply in the scope of a possible skills shortage, employers would have to adjust their offers in order to attract job candidates. Although, this topic already is being paid widespread public and scholar attention, this bo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hamburg, Germany :
Anchor Academic Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The cultural aspects of MINT recruitment; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review; 2.1 Culture; 2.1.1 Definitions and concepts of culture; 2.1.2 The 5D model of Hofstede; 2.2 The skills shortage; 2.2.1 Definitions; 2.2.2 The skills shortage in the short- term view; 2.2.3 The skills shortage in the long- term view; 2.3 Research questions; 2.3.1 H 1:Expectations about the occurrences of MAS, UAI, IDV and LTO; 2.3.2 RQ 1: How can employers take the survey results into account concerning their recruitment?
- 3. Methodology of the underlying survey3.1 Subjects; 3.2 Procedures; 3.3 Data treatment; 3.3.1 Allocation of questionnaire components to Hofstede's cultural dimensions; 3.3.2 Calculation of the dimensions' scores; 4. Results; 4.1 Scores of the single questionnaire items; 4.2 The occurrence of Hofstede's cultural dimensions; 4.2.1 MAS; 4.2.2 UAI; 4.2.3 IDV; 4.2.4 LTO; 4.2.5 Comparison of German national macroculture and MINT students' microculture; 5. Discussion; 5.1 Benefits that employers should offer to MINT graduates; 5.1.1 Work- life balance; 5.1.2 Job security; 5.1.3 Diversified tasks
- 5.2 Less important attracting factors in MINT recruitment5.2.1 Online presence; 5.2.2 Working abroad; 5.2.3 Monetary and non- monetary reward; 5.3 Important factors in the recruitment of female MINT graduates; 5.3.1 Corporate responsibility for environment and society; 5.3.2 Ethically problematic business areas; 5.3.3 Personal contact persons along the recruitment process; 6. Limitations; 6.1 Limitations of external validity due to the database; 6.2 Limitations of internal validity; 6.2.1 Limitations due to the methodology of data ascertainment
- 6.2.2 Limitations due to the methodology of data treatment6.3 Other limitations; 7. Outlook; 8. References; 9. Appendix A: Questionnaire used for the underlying survey; 10. Appendix B: Results table of the underlying survey; 11. Appendix C: Visualization of the single questionnaire items' scores