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  MORAL ASPECTS OF HEADHUNTING – ATTRACTING AND RECRUITMENT QUALITY Attention has recently given to understand how organisations source for their workforce, because employees are widely recognised as valuable assets that organisations can leverage upon for survival and attaining competitive advantage. Firms are constrained with a number of challenges in achieving their production objectives (Deakins and Bensemann, 2019; Fowowe, 2017). With an increasing rate of unemployment , (Abraham and Nosa, 2018; Ihensekhien and Aisien, 2019), and a focus on decent employment (Moen et al., 2020), the effort of all stakeholders in the labour market is worth exploring. Understanding matching patterns and determinants of attracting quality talents is an under researched area especially from the firm perspective (Ghavidel et al., 2019). Firms recruitment strategies have impacts on the sorting patterns in the labour market which remains undetermined (Hensvik and Skans, 2016; Nekoei and Web...

  Recruiting Through Job Advertisements   The Effects of Cognitive Elaboration on Decision Making   We applied a model of persuasion – the elaboration likelihood model – to investigate whether individuals’ decisions about responding to job advertisements are affected by how deeply they process recruitment messages (i.e., elaboration likelihood, EL). We manipulated individuals’ (N 5 112) motivation and ability to carefully process job advertisements (ads). Recently, Chapman and Jones (2002) suggested that the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) (Petty & Cacioppo, 1986) might offer a strong theoretical basis for understanding the cognitive processes involved in applicant attraction which might, in turn, inform recruiting practice. In the present study, we use this model to understand and predict how individuals’ depth of processing might influence decisions about the job advertisements to which they would most likely apply. Recruitment Through Job Advertisem...