Personality and recruitment: what corporate organizations can learn from Greek life
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
The effective recruitment of high performing individuals is vital to all types of organizations. As such, successful recruitment strategies used in nonbusiness organizations could prove beneficial to corporate organizations. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of greek letter organization recruitment strategies in the recruitment and retention of new members, and evaluate the use of these strategies in corporate organizations. Greek letter organizations seek to recruit successful students that exhibit academic achievement, leadership skills, and philanthropic involvement. After graduation, these same high performing students are then recruited by organizations based on similar, if not the same, traits. The personality tests within the study will examine each chapter's levels of leadership, teamwork, organizational citizenship behaviors, organizational commitment, and the Big 5 personality factors. Members of greek letter organizations will be given personality inventories and surveys to determine a chapter baseline. Each semester, new greek letter organization members will be given the same assessments in order to assess the degree of similarity between members and the organizations. Each new member will be retested the following semester and the two scores will be compared to investigate alignment of person organizations fit. The chapter’s personality traits and recruitment strategies will be correlated with recruitment success and retention rates.
Date
10-22-2016
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
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Personality and recruitment: what corporate organizations can learn from Greek life
The effective recruitment of high performing individuals is vital to all types of organizations. As such, successful recruitment strategies used in nonbusiness organizations could prove beneficial to corporate organizations. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of greek letter organization recruitment strategies in the recruitment and retention of new members, and evaluate the use of these strategies in corporate organizations. Greek letter organizations seek to recruit successful students that exhibit academic achievement, leadership skills, and philanthropic involvement. After graduation, these same high performing students are then recruited by organizations based on similar, if not the same, traits. The personality tests within the study will examine each chapter's levels of leadership, teamwork, organizational citizenship behaviors, organizational commitment, and the Big 5 personality factors. Members of greek letter organizations will be given personality inventories and surveys to determine a chapter baseline. Each semester, new greek letter organization members will be given the same assessments in order to assess the degree of similarity between members and the organizations. Each new member will be retested the following semester and the two scores will be compared to investigate alignment of person organizations fit. The chapter’s personality traits and recruitment strategies will be correlated with recruitment success and retention rates.
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology