| Drawing on literature in organizational attraction and corporate social responsibility, the present study examines the impact of organizational corporate social responsibility (CSR) on attractiveness as employers. The three aspects of CSR, i.e., economic, legal, and ethical are proposed to have independent effects on organizational attraction. The mechanism through which people combine such information is also explored. Further, from a person-organization fit perspective, I posit that the congruence between CSR and individual ethical predispositions would predict organizational attraction.;To address these issues, I conducted a policy capturing study in a sample of 202 undergraduate business students approaching graduation at one northeastern university. Corporate economic, legal and ethical responsibility were manipulated and fully crossed to create 27 scenarios. Subjects were asked to answer questions about their attraction to the organization as an employer for each scenario. Individual variables were also measured in the written survey. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses were used to analyze the data.;The results showed support for my proposed model in general. It was found that each aspect of CSR had a unique effect on organizational attraction and probability of accepting offer. Further, the participants combined these three types of information in an interactive configural manner. In addition, applicants with different ethical predispositions were affected by CSR to different extents. Future research needs and practical implications are discussed. |
