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Should retail trade companies avoid recruiting maximisers?

Liu, Y-L, Keeling, Kathleen A, Papamichail, K Nadia (2014) Should retail trade companies avoid recruiting maximisers? In: SIBR Conference Proceedings. . (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:62521)

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Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences in characteristics, job outcome experiences and attitudes of maximiser and satisficer decision-making style groups working in the retail trade.

Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 140 participants who have accepted a job offer in the retail trade in the past six months in the USA was conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The survey examined participants’ opinions and attitudes towards their present job and established which job information source(s) they had used to search for retail trade job-related information.

Findings – The results show that compared to satisficers, maximisers exert more effort when searching job information, have higher uncertainty avoidance and need for cognition, and experience more post-decisional regret. In this sample, any significant differences between maximisers and satisficers in relation to job satisfaction, company commitment, and intention to quit their present job are restricted to certain groups. For recruitment information sources, while satisficers rely on their families and friends for information, maximisers are more likely to obtain job-related information from other sources such as online discussion forums.

Practical implications – Even though some studies suggest that maximisers are unhappy with their choices, this research recommends that retail trade companies should not exclude maximisers from their recruitment pools. Retailers should enhance their candidate pools with both maximisers and satisficers by managing different recruitment information sources.

Originality/value – Research of decision-making style in recruitment is relatively limited. This research illustrates the differences of attitudes between maximisers and satisficers towards their present retail job, and also demonstrates the preferences of maximisers and satisficers in recruitment information sources.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Proceeding)
Additional information: This paper received a ''Best Paper Award'' a the conference
Uncontrolled keywords: Decision making, Retailing, Human resource management, Job satisfaction, Individual behaviour, Personnel
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use)
Depositing User: Yu-Lun Liu
Date Deposited: 02 Aug 2017 10:31 UTC
Last Modified: 23 Jan 2023 08:15 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/62521 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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