Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economy, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

2 Associate prof., department of management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

3 Estahban

Abstract

Present study is designed to provide a model for measuring employer brand and measuring employer brand in zarringhazal corporate. literature review of the subject used to estimate the dimensions of employer brand and then attempt to measure the company's employer brand. According to the purpose current study is a developmental and  applied research and research design and method of data gathering is Survey/ Descriptive. Needed data gathered with use of customized related questionnaire to the research model from Employees and job applicants of Zarringhazal corporate and the results of  Confirmatory factor analysis shows that an employer brand can be measured in five dimensions of economic with Three indicators, Functional with five indicators, social with eleven indicators, developmental with five indicators and messaging with seven indicators. Results of Mean and Standard deviation of answers also shows that in an overall assessment situation of employer brand in Zarringhazal corporate is relatively Appropriate and  gets the highest mean in the economic dimension and the lowest in the social.  

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