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UMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, VOL 18 NO 3, 2008
© 2008 The Authors.
Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Organisations in the services sector were significantly more likely to use
commercial jobs boards compared with manufacturing organisations (Pearson Chisquare
= 10.96; p < 0.01). However, there were no significant differences by sector in
the use of corporate web sites for recruitment or the perceived success of corporate
or commercial recruitment web sites.
The use and perceived success of corporate and commercial web sites was also
compared in organisations that did and did not experience recruitment difficulties.
Organisations who experienced recruitment difficulties were significantly more likely
to use commercial jobs boards for recruitment (Pearson Chi-square = 4.71; p < 0.01).
There were no differences in the use of corporate web sites for recruitment or the
perceived success of either corporate or commercial web sites.
The proportion of organisations using corporate and commercial web sites was
compared in those organisations that did or did not experience recruitment difficulties.
Organisations that had experienced recruitment difficulties were significantly more
likely to use commercial web sites (p < 0.05) but not corporate web sites. There was no
difference in the success of either commercial jobs boards or corporate web sites in
those companies that did or did not experience recruitment difficulties.
In order to examine the relative importance of the above factors of industry sector,
industry, organisation size and experience of recruitment difficulties on the use and
perceived success of corporate web sites and commercial jobs boards, a series of
logistic regressions were performed. Industry sector, consisting of three values
(private, public and not for profit), was entered into the analysis as two dummy
variables, with not for profit as the reference value. The model produced a Chisquare
value of 24.97 (p < 0.01) and a Nagelkerke R-squared value of 0.045.
The logistic regression analysis depicted in Table 4 showed that use of commercial
jobs boards was significantly related to organisation size, sector (specifically whether
or not an organisation was private sector), industry and recruitment difficulties, with
these variables explaining just under 5 per cent of the variance in the criterion
variable. Larger organisations, services organisations and those with recruitment
difficulties were significantly more likely to use commercial jobs boards. Private
sector organisations were significantly less likely to use commercial jobs boards.
These findings support the Chi-square comparisons above. The model produced a
Chi-square value of 31.75 (p < 0.01) and a Nagelkerke R-squared value of 0.054.
TABLE 4 Logistic regression examining factors influencing the
adoption of commercial jobs boards (n = 811)
Variable B Wald Significance
Organisation size 0.177 8.41 p < 0.01
Public sector (dummy) -0.67 3.77 NS
Private sector (dummy) -0.65 4.60 p < 0.05
Industry 0.31 4.85 p < 0.05
Recruitment difficulties 0.46 4.05 p < 0.05
(Constant) -2.20 18.97 p < 0.01
Emma Parry and Shaun Tyson
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