| dc.description.abstract | This study attempts to answer whether job seekers′ personality traits influence their work motivation under different work conditions, and whether their work motivation affects their preference for employers, leading to an increase in employer attractiveness and ultimately resulting in job seekers′ intention to submit their resumes, that is, generating job pursuit intention. The study is divided into two parts: the first part mainly focuses on whether job seekers′ “personality traits” affect their “work motivation;” then explores whether job seekers′ “work motivation” influences their “employer attractiveness,” and finally investigates whether the “employer attractiveness” experienced by job seekers affects their “job pursuit intention”; the second part examines the moderating effect of different work conditions using recruitment advertisements, examining whether there are differences in the relationship between job seekers′ personality traits, work motivation, employer attractiveness, and job pursuit intention in the context of friendship and professional work conditions.
This study used structural equation modeling to conduct path coefficient analysis and multiple group analysis, and a total of 366 valid questionnaires were collected with a questionnaire validity rate of 93.37%. The results showed that in the first part, different personality traits had significant effects on work motivation, with “extroversion,” “agreeableness,” “conscientiousness,” “neuroticism,” and “openness to experience” positively affecting work motivation; “work motivation” had a positive effect on employer attractiveness; and “employer attractiveness” had a positive effect on job pursuit intention. The evaluation of the work condition effect in the second part found that in the contexts of friendship and professional workplaces, there were significant differences in the relationship between “agreeableness” and “work motivation”; and “work motivation” and “employer attractiveness.” However, there were no significant differences in other relationships.
This study has two contributions. First, the overall model path analysis reveals that regardless of the personality traits of job seekers, there is a positive impact on stimulating work motivation, and work motivation also positively affects employer attractiveness, which in turn, has a positive impact on job pursuit intention. The second part shows that there are significant differences in the relationship between job seekers who have “agreeableness” and “work motivation”; “work motivation” and “employer attractiveness” in the contexts of friendship and professional workplaces. However, in the friendship work condition, there were no significant correlations between the “extraversion” and “openness to experience” job seekers and “work motivation”; and in the professional work condition, there were significant correlations between “extraversion” and job seekers who have “conscientiousness” and “work motivation;” “employer attractiveness,” and “job pursuit intention.” Therefore, this study found that the moderating effect of friendship and professional work conditions may not be significant, but it confirms that using different work conditions in recruitment advertisements to attract job seekers with different personality traits is effective, and it also confirms that different work conditions will affect job seekers′ preferences and job-seeking related behaviors. | en_US |