Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image

In increasingly competitive labour markets, attracting and retaining talent has become a prime concern of organisations. Employers need to understand the range of factors that influence career decision making and the role of employer branding in attracting human capital that best fits and contribute...

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Main Authors: Wallace, M., Lings, I., Cameron, Roslyn, Sheldon, N.
Other Authors: Roger Harris
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13075
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Lings, I.
Cameron, Roslyn
Sheldon, N.
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Sheldon, N.
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description In increasingly competitive labour markets, attracting and retaining talent has become a prime concern of organisations. Employers need to understand the range of factors that influence career decision making and the role of employer branding in attracting human capital that best fits and contributes to the strategic aims of an organisation. This chapter identifies the changing factors that attract people to certain employment and industries and discusses the importance of aligning employer branding with employee branding to create a strong, genuine and lasting employer brand. Whilst organisations have long used marketing and branding practices to engender loyalty in customers, they are increasingly expanding this activity to differentiate organisations and make them attractive from an employee perspective. This chapter discusses employer branding and industry image as two important components of attraction strategies and describes ways companies can maximise their brand awareness in the employment market to both current and future employees.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-130752023-02-13T08:01:37Z Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image Wallace, M. Lings, I. Cameron, Roslyn Sheldon, N. Roger Harris Tom Short learning and development workplace coaching critical management studies workplace learning workforce development human resource development workplace mentoring vocational education human resource management HRM HRD career planning In increasingly competitive labour markets, attracting and retaining talent has become a prime concern of organisations. Employers need to understand the range of factors that influence career decision making and the role of employer branding in attracting human capital that best fits and contributes to the strategic aims of an organisation. This chapter identifies the changing factors that attract people to certain employment and industries and discusses the importance of aligning employer branding with employee branding to create a strong, genuine and lasting employer brand. Whilst organisations have long used marketing and branding practices to engender loyalty in customers, they are increasingly expanding this activity to differentiate organisations and make them attractive from an employee perspective. This chapter discusses employer branding and industry image as two important components of attraction strategies and describes ways companies can maximise their brand awareness in the employment market to both current and future employees. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13075 10.1007/978-981-4560-58-0_2 Springer restricted
spellingShingle learning and development
workplace coaching
critical management studies
workplace learning
workforce development
human resource development
workplace mentoring
vocational education
human resource management
HRM
HRD
career planning
Wallace, M.
Lings, I.
Cameron, Roslyn
Sheldon, N.
Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image
title Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image
title_full Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image
title_fullStr Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image
title_full_unstemmed Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image
title_short Attracting and Retaining Staff: The Role of Branding and Industry Image
title_sort attracting and retaining staff: the role of branding and industry image
topic learning and development
workplace coaching
critical management studies
workplace learning
workforce development
human resource development
workplace mentoring
vocational education
human resource management
HRM
HRD
career planning
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13075