Companies compete for employees based on their perceived employer brand value. This study investigates what influences a strong or weak employer brand has on the preference for total rewards. The results should assist remuneration agents in appropriately leveraging the company’s employer brand value, as a factor, when compiling a total rewards package for potential employees. A questionnaire was developed, asking participants to indicate their preferences relating to total rewards in the context of their current employer, with regard to stronger and weaker employer brands. Results of the study indicate that potential employees would require financial reward increases in the range of 15% - 30% in order to change employment, irrespective of whether it is perceived as a strong or weak employer brand. It was observed that a stronger employer brand could offer increases closer to the bottom of the range compared to weaker employer brands which would have to pay a premium to the top end of the range Employer brand value appears to increase the total reward costs for companies, irrespective of how the brand is perceived. It is however beneficial to be viewed as a strong employer brand, as the value of this perception translates to a smaller premium compared to weaker employer brands. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Problem Formulation: Is the consumers perceived brand personality of a celebrity endorser affected by a marketing activity and its transferred personality? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explain the correlation and relation between the perceived brand personality of a celebrity endorser and a marketing activity he or she partakes in. Theoretical Framework: The frame of reference consists of existing theories regarding brand personality, celebrity endorsement, the Meaning of Transfer Model and Marketing Activities. Method: This study has chosen a deductive quantitative experimental research design. The collected primary data is consisting of 159 respondents divided into three groups who answered an group specific online survey which was distributed through private social media channels. Empirical Findings: The results in this study comprehends of 159 respondents attitude of a celebrity endorser, which has been analysed through statistical methods. Conclusion: The study’s results point out that there is no significant change on a celebrity endorsers perceived brand personality affected by the effect of a marketing activity, which can be statistically proven. The results showed a slight variance, however these are most likely a result of random.

Ambition of the thesis is to identify and evaluate tools that companies use to build and strengthen its employer brand in the external labour market, and internally among its employees and apply the theory of building employer brand on concrete company. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses defining brand as such, its theory and components moving through corporate brand to definition and concept of employer brand and its elements and ways of building an employer brand. The methodology of work consists of analysis of dedicated literature and papers on the topic and publicly available information about chosen company. In practical part, the thesis analyses concrete company and its employer brand using external and internal questionnaire research.

本研究為補強雜誌媒體領域中對於品牌研究的不足，希望導入有關品牌忠誠度之相關研究，建構國內財經雜誌品牌忠誠度衡量指標，作為業界實際營運時的有效參考，未來則以此為基礎，發展其他類型媒體品牌忠誠度衡量指標。 研究採用修正式德菲法，將財經雜誌品牌忠誠度衡量指標分為行為指標與態度指標兩大面向，行為指標共有4項題項；態度指標則有12項題項。經兩回合專家問卷及專家訪談，研究結果顯示，行為指標共有4項指標「購買比率」、「購買順序」、「購買持續時間」、「閱讀比率」達到專家共識一致性與重要性之檢測標準；態度指標則有「購買意願」、「滿意度」、「品牌評價」、「推薦意願」、「品牌偏好」、「品牌信任」，以及「品牌承諾 / 堅持」等7項題項達到檢測標準。 研究建議，財經雜誌在衡量品牌忠誠度時，可依據通過檢測指標建構衡量題項，同時在實務工作上，以產品內容的專業性與精確性提升讀者購買與閱讀意願，並獲取讀者認同，提高讀者的滿意度與對該雜誌的評價、推薦意願，同時建立品牌偏好與品牌信任，自然可獲得讀者對於該雜誌品牌的承諾與堅持。 / The study is aiming at consolidate the lack of brand study in the business magazine industry, and would like to introduce related research for constructing loyalty evaluation indexes of Taiwan business magazine brand, as well as to build up effective reference for practical operation. Then with the study base, we can develop brand loyalty evaluation indexes of other type magazine in the future. This study adopts “modified Delphi” and divides the brand loyalty evaluation indexes of business magazines into two dimensions: “behavioral indexes” and “attitudinal indexes”. The “behavioral indexes” consists four items and the “attitudinal indexes” consists 12 items. After completing two rounds of questionnaires, the result shows that there’re four “behavioral indexes” which are qualified for consistence and importance” by experts and scharlors of media marketing, including “percent of purchase”, “purchase sequence”, “duration time for purchasing” and “percent of reading”. Also, there’re 7 qualified “attitudinal indexes” including “purchase intention”, “brand satisfaction”, “brand evaluation”, “recommendation intention”, “brand preferences”, “brand trust” and “brand commitment / insistence”. The results suggest that business magazines may evaluate brand loyalty with these qualified indexes. From practical point, business magazine need to focus on the professionalism and accuracy of content as to improve readers’ purchase and reading intention, to get readers’ recognition, to boost readers’ satisfaction and recommendation as well. Meanwhile, once the brand preferences and brand trust are constructed, the business magazines get the readers’ brand loyalty as well.