<p>Drawing upon Applicant-Attribution-Reaction Theory (AART) and research in the area ofjob applicant reactions, this study clarifies and underscores the influence of attributions on job applicant perceptions and behavioural reactions to staffing procedures and decisions. Overall, applicant attributions were influenced by: (a) experiencing a staffing process that satisfies/violates procedural justice rules; (b) receiving a favourable (selected) or unfavourable (rejected) selection outcome; and (c) receiving an explanation for a selection decision. Results further suggest that applicant attributions, influence applicant perceptions and behaviours. Consistent with AART's predictions, process fairness perceptions mediated relationships between applicant attributions and each of organizational perceptions, recommendation intentions, litigation intentions, job acceptance intentions, and reapplication intentions. Theoretical and practical implications for these findings are discussed.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Job descriptions are one of the major mechanisms that organizations use to convey job and company information to job applicants. Consequently, job descriptions play a major role in the recruitment process to attract job candidates. However, it is unclear whether the quality of a job description influences a job applicant’s decision making. It is in the organizations’ interest to understand this phenomenon to make better decisions on how to present job descriptions in order to achieve qualified applicants and a desirable applicant pool size. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the impact of the quality of information of job descriptions on a job applicant’s decision to pursue a job. A model is developed to quantify job descriptions. The developed model contains three axes: i) x-axis – job description components, ii) y-axis – information quality dimensions, and iii) z-axis – job industries. This investigation analyzed 127 job descriptions for students majoring in accounting at the University of Waterloo to determine the relationship between the qualities of different components of the job descriptions with the corresponding number of applications. The results of this investigation suggest that information quality has a positive impact on job applicants’ decision to pursue a job. In addition, information quality has different magnitudes of impact for jobs that have similar organization reputation or geographic location. Future research is recommended to analyze other information quality dimensions by using a similar experimental approach as the one used in this thesis.

Job descriptions are one of the major mechanisms that organizations use to convey job and company information to job applicants. Consequently, job descriptions play a major role in the recruitment process to attract job candidates. However, it is unclear whether the quality of a job description influences a job applicant’s decision making. It is in the organizations’ interest to understand this phenomenon to make better decisions on how to present job descriptions in order to achieve qualified applicants and a desirable applicant pool size. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the impact of the quality of information of job descriptions on a job applicant’s decision to pursue a job. A model is developed to quantify job descriptions. The developed model contains three axes: i) x-axis – job description components, ii) y-axis – information quality dimensions, and iii) z-axis – job industries. This investigation analyzed 127 job descriptions for students majoring in accounting at the University of Waterloo to determine the relationship between the qualities of different components of the job descriptions with the corresponding number of applications. The results of this investigation suggest that information quality has a positive impact on job applicants’ decision to pursue a job. In addition, information quality has different magnitudes of impact for jobs that have similar organization reputation or geographic location. Future research is recommended to analyze other information quality dimensions by using a similar experimental approach as the one used in this thesis.

Personal data protection before and during the establishment of the employment relationship The diploma thesis is devoted to personal data protection before and during the establishment of the employment relationship. The objective of this thesis is to outline the personal data protection in the context of the employment relationship establishment, to give a comprehensive overview of its legislation in particular, describe the basic terms and principles relating to this subject matter and specify the most important rights and obligations regarding both stages of the employment relationship establishment. The basis for the thesis is primarily the legislation of the General Data Protection Regulation and Personal Data Processing Act 2019 (No. 110/2019 Coll.). The diploma thesis is divided into four chapters. The historical events with a significant influence on the personal data protection development are described in the first chapter. This chapter also explains the concept of a right to privacy and separation of the right to protection of personal data from it. The second chapter deals with personal data protection legislation on the international level, as well as EU level and national level. The third chapter defines selected fundamental terms relating to personal data protection, particularly...

Under common law an employer enjoyed complete freedom of choice when recruiting and selecting employees. An employer had unfettered discretion in recruiting and selecting employees. There were no legal restrictions on the prerogative of the employer to appoint employees. Developments in labour law have, however, gradually diminished the employer's freedom of choice during the recruitment and selection process. The Employment Equity Act No. 55 of 1998 and the Code of Good Practice on the Integration of Employment equity into Human Resource Policies and Practices, 2005 as· well as impending labour legislation impose limitations on the employer's freedom of choice during the recruitment and selection process. The remaining problem therefore is: What is the extent of the limitations on the employer's freedom of choice in the recruitment and selection of employees? The study will be conducted by means of a literature study of relevant books, journal articles, statutes, case law and internet sources relating to restrictions which are placed by legislation and case law on the employer's freedom to choose employees during recruitment and selection. This research therefore investigates the extent to which developments in labour law have eroded the prerogative of an employer to appoint employees. This investigation will help clarify the limits within which an employer has to exercise its choice of an employee during recruitment and selection. / LLM (Labour Law), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

Under common law an employer enjoyed complete freedom of choice when recruiting and selecting employees. An employer had unfettered discretion in recruiting and selecting employees. There were no legal restrictions on the prerogative of the employer to appoint employees. Developments in labour law have, however, gradually diminished the employer's freedom of choice during the recruitment and selection process. The Employment Equity Act No. 55 of 1998 and the Code of Good Practice on the Integration of Employment equity into Human Resource Policies and Practices, 2005 as· well as impending labour legislation impose limitations on the employer's freedom of choice during the recruitment and selection process. The remaining problem therefore is: What is the extent of the limitations on the employer's freedom of choice in the recruitment and selection of employees? The study will be conducted by means of a literature study of relevant books, journal articles, statutes, case law and internet sources relating to restrictions which are placed by legislation and case law on the employer's freedom to choose employees during recruitment and selection. This research therefore investigates the extent to which developments in labour law have eroded the prerogative of an employer to appoint employees. This investigation will help clarify the limits within which an employer has to exercise its choice of an employee during recruitment and selection. / LLM (Labour Law), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

The diploma thesis deals with used aspects of admission of new staff. Czech labour market is described in brief , including the recent trends in the unemployment rate. The work attends to the process of admission of new staff, variety of methods, mode of choosing and the steps of selection new staff. There is a chapter that deals with strategy and instruments of staff selection, especially CV and interview. The final chapter is dedicated to the question of discrimination in respect to staff selection.

This is an examination of the predictive validity of two personality scales, the NEO PPI and the CRT-HR when administered to a sample of 595 Psychiatric Aide job applicants. The research design also tests the moderating advantages of two faking suppression techniques, the use of a lie scale and warning the test takers. The individual applicant profile provided by the screen was evaluated with criterion including turnover, performance, absenteeism and employee injury collected six months after employment began.

This work is focused at the unemployment analysis in Prachatice and Čestký Krumlov districts in 2010 and considering of the locality impact on active labour market policy efficiency. The work should provide comprehensive view of ways and possibilities to solve unemployment at local labour markets. It should examine suitability of used tools of active labour market policy for particular groups of job applicants and confirm their importance for unemployment cutting, mainly at monitored groups of job applicants which are most endangered in labour market.

The active employment policy belongs to main means solving problems of unemployment. This dissertation concentrates on active employment policy and analyses it by an example of Ústí region. Its main aim is to determine whether the implements used in active employment policy are purposeful and effective in decreasing of unemployment rate in Ústí region, using methods of induction and abstraction,analysis of statistical data. The dissertatioun evaluates the period after 2000. The dissertation is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part describes labour market, unemployment and employment policy. There are described other implements used to fight the unemployment in some European countries. There is a description of European social fund that gives the financial support to some implements and projects concerning active employment policy. In the analytical part there is a brief socioeconomical analysis of Ústí region, and the analysis of unemployment describing its developmemt since 1990s in Ústí region and in the Czech Republic. The structure of applicants for job is described out of various viewpoints. On the basis of these data we find out which groups of people have the greatest participation in unemployment and should be the target group of active employment policy. The main part of the dissertation is the analysis of active employment policy, its financing, analysis of implements and some completed projects that had been concentrated on threatened groups of job applicants. On the basis of these results we try to say whether the active employment policy in Ústí region has an effect on decreasing the number of unemployed. At the end there are some suggestions and possible solutions of the problem in Ústí region in following years.