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The Multiple Identities of an Employer: A case study on DHL

by Marcelo Savignano
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783640774388
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Grin Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: USD 67.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 137 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Operations Research and Research & Development

Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1.0, European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, language: English, abstract: This thesis mainly deals with the challenge of analyzing an organization's ability to attract employees. In spite of the abundance of literature covering the subject, there is little empirical evidence supporting the superiority of one method over the other. Such over-supply of organizational theories clearly calls for a unified framework that allows organizations to evaluate and improve their attractiveness as an employer, and as a consequence, this thesis aims to contribute to the field by introducing a Unified Framework for Identity Gap Analysis (UFIGA). The UFIGA draws upon the contributions of three particular theories, which are Employer Branding, the Multiple Facets of Collective Identities and Control Theory, bringing together concepts from typically separated disciplines, such as human resources, marketing, organizational behavior, social psychology, math and engineering. Such a breadth of disciplines allow the model to deal with many aspects of an employer's attractiveness, such as the benefits presented to the target audience (employer branding), the differentiation between projection and perception of these benefits (multiple identities) and the manipulation of certain aspects of the organization's identity as a means of minimizing the gap between projection and perception of benefits (control theory). Besides of formulating a theoretical model for employer attractiveness analysis, this thesis provides the reader with a particular case of the model's applicability. In fact, it applies the UFIGA to the particular case of DHL, a worldwide market leader in the Express and Logistics business, whose identity as an employer is somewhat overshadowed by its strong consumer brand. After collecting information about three particular facets of DHL's identity as an employer (i.e.

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