IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/csrchp/978-3-030-68861-5_19.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Spain

In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Employer Attractiveness

Author

Listed:
  • Julen Castillo-Apraiz

    (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)

Abstract

Employer branding is a growing phenomenon in Spain that is becoming a necessary competitive weapon. According to rankings such as the Best Workplaces ranking, most of the best firms in Spain have a flexible timetable, a new teleworking model, and offer a private health insurance for their employees, among other benefits. Furthermore, according to Hofstede’s (1980) cultural dimensions classification, uncertainty avoidance would be the dimension that best defines Spain, so having a stable job is something that Spaniards also value. Based on 25 attributes, we distinguish three CSR dimensions—responsibility towards employees, socio-ecological responsibility and governance and ethics—and two non-CSR dimensions—company and workplace. Drawing on a sample of 622 students at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, we analyze how Spanish job seekers assess the aforementioned dimensions. The most valued dimension is responsibility towards employees, being job security and social services the variable that shows the highest relative utility within this dimension. Nevertheless, Spanish students show a relatively low interest in the other two CSR dimensions, i.e. socio-ecological responsibility and Governance and Ethics, especially in the former one. Work atmosphere is by far the attribute that shows the highest relative utility to Spanish participants.

Suggested Citation

  • Julen Castillo-Apraiz, 2021. "Spain," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Silke Bustamante & Fabio Pizzutilo & Martina Martinovic & Susana Herrero Olarte (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility and Employer Attractiveness, pages 207-219, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-030-68861-5_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68861-5_19
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-030-68861-5_19. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.