Recruiting to Enhance and Support Global Diversity

Abstract

Multi-national enterprises require a globally diverse and talented workforce integrated across different cultural contexts. Leveraging the potential of employees’ global diversity requires not only diverse people but also an inclusive culture and environment in which all globally diverse employees can succeed. Thus, organizations need to recruit and hire employees open to different cultures, perspectives, and experiences. The results of a randomized, controlled field study of 327 real job seekers found that job seekers higher in other-group orientation were more attracted to an organization whose recruitment messages communicated that the company valued global diversity and multilingualism in its employees. Using regression and conditional process analysis observed effects on job pursuit intentions were found to occur through pathways mediated by perceived person-organization fit, organizational prestige, and organizational attraction. Results demonstrate that recruiting message wording about the employer...