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Literature Review: A Critical Review Of Employer Branding

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This chapter presents relevant literature to the subject of Employer Branding. The literature supporting the proposed conceptual model framed for this research and also helps in understating the theoretical base and perspective of various research and researchers in this field.
2.1 Employer Branding
Ambler and Barrow (1996) are the first authors who introduced the concept of employer branding in the global market and defined employer brand in terms of a combination of functional, economic and psychological benefits that is provided by employment, and identified with the employing company.” Also states that the benefits the Employer Brand offers to the employees are equivalent to those that a product brand offers to consumers like developmental and useful activities as functional, material or monetary rewards as economic and feelings such as belonging, direction and purpose as psychological. The employer brand is also perceived by its image, as the product brand. Further in their study the authors’ states that the Employer Brand is most likely a corporate culture, the difference between the two concepts are not always clear.
Rucci et al. (1997), in their research work demonstrates the formation of an employer brand that leads to improved level of employee …show more content…

The research attention is on Employer branding exclusively for its Employees. The authors advocate that a strong, favorable corporate brand is a powerful "navigational tool" to a variety of stakeholders, which include not only existing employees and shareholders, but also potential employees. This underlines that effective corporate brand management needs to balance an external orientation with an internal

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