title: Managing job seekers' organizational image beliefs: the role of media richness and media credibility.
abstract: In this article, the authors assessed job seekers' organizational image beliefs before and after they experienced 3 recruitment media. The authors examined whether perceptions of media richness and credibility were related to improvements in the correspondence between job seekers' image beliefs and firms' projected images. Both media richness and credibility perceptions were associated with correspondence between job seekers' image beliefs and firms' projected images. However, results revealed that richness and credibility perceptions were likely to enhance job seekers' initial beliefs about firms' images when their beliefs were positive but did not diminish job seekers' beliefs about firms' images when their initial impressions were too positive.
authors.affiliation: Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490, USA. dan_cable@unc.edu
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Cable
authors.forename: Kang Yang Trevor
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D003469:Culture; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010559:Personnel Management; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires