Money or Dream in my Future? The Effect of Job Attributes and Temporal Distance on Job Pursuit Intention: The Moderating Role of Future Time Perspective

• Main Authors: Te-Yu Huang, 黃得育
• Other Authors: Shyh-jer Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08069537237578780919

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 104 === While the construal level theory (CLT) has been widely discussed in the consumer behavior domain, this study is aimed to extend the CLT to the recruitment research, in wish to realize whether people’s preference and attitudes toward the different job attributes change in different temporal distances. The study also discusses whether future time perspective (FTP) moderates the interaction effect of temporal distance and job attributes. The study applies a 2 (near future vs. distant future) × 2 (positive objective + negative subjective job attributes vs. positive subjective + negative objective job attributes) between-subjects factorial experiment design. The result shows that the objective job attributes have a stronger influence on peoples’ job pursuit intention and job/organization attraction in the distant future rather than in the near future; whereas subjective job attributes have a stronger influence in the near future rather than in the distant future, which are in contrast to the hypothesis 1 of this study. In addition, the study finds out that the interaction effect of temporal distance and job attributes is stronger for the people with higher FTP rather than the people with lower FTP, which is aligned with the hypothesis 2.