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- Publications
- Influence
The relation of instrumental and symbolic attributes to a company's attractiveness as an employer.
- F. Lievens, Scott Highhouse
- Psychology
- 1 March 2003
This study adds a new marketing-based angle to the study of the attractiveness of organizations in the early stages of the recruitment process. Drawing on the instrumental-symbolic framework from the… Expand
Measuring Attraction to Organizations
- Scott Highhouse, F. Lievens, E. Sinar
- Psychology
- 1 December 2003
Organizational attractionmeasures are commonly used as surrogate assessments of organizational pursuit. Despite the range in content often encompassed by such instruments, no research has… Expand
Employer branding in the Belgian Army: The importance of instrumental and symbolic beliefs for potential applicants, actual applicants, and military employees
- F. Lievens
- Psychology
- 1 March 2007
This study conceptualizes employer brand as a package of instrumental and symbolic attributes. Using a sample of 955 individuals (429 potential applicants, 392 actual applicants, and 134 military… Expand
Social Influences on Organizational Attractiveness: Investigating If and When Word of Mouth Matters
- Greet Van Hoye, F. Lievens
- Psychology
- 1 September 2007
Previous recruitment studies have treated potential applicants as individual decision makers, neglecting informational social influences on organizational attractiveness. The present study… Expand
Tapping the grapevine: a closer look at word-of-mouth as a recruitment source.
- Greet van Hoye, F. Lievens
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of applied psychology
- 28 February 2009
To advance knowledge of word-of-mouth as a company-independent recruitment source, this study draws on conceptualizations of word-of-mouth in the marketing literature. The sample consisted of 612… Expand
Organizational Identity and Employer Image: Towards a Unifying Framework
- F. Lievens, Greet van Hoye, F. Anseel
- Sociology
- 1 March 2007
This study aims to bridge two research streams that have evolved relatively apart from each other, namely the research streams on organizational identity and on employer branding (employer image). In… Expand
Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school.
- F. Lievens, D. Ones, S. Dilchert
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of applied psychology
- 1 November 2009
Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic… Expand
How Are We Doing After 30 Years? A Meta-Analytic Review of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Feedback-Seeking Behavior
- F. Anseel, A. Beatty, Winny Shen, F. Lievens, P. Sackett
- Psychology
- 1 January 2015
This study provides meta-analytic estimates of the antecedents and consequences of feedback-seeking behavior (FSB). Clear support was found for the guiding cost/benefit framework in the… Expand
A closer look at the frame-of-reference effect in personality scale scores and validity.
- F. Lievens, Wilfried de Corte, E. Schollaert
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of applied psychology
- 1 March 2008
This article contributes to the understanding of why the use of a frame-of-reference leads to increased criterion-related validity of personality inventories. Two competing explanations are described… Expand
Recruitment-Related Information Sources and Organizational Attractiveness: Can Something be Done about Negative Publicity?
- Greet Van Hoye, F. Lievens
- Psychology
- 8 October 2005
The present study begins to fill a gap in the recruitment literature by investigating whether the effects of negative publicity on organizational attractiveness can be mitigated by recruitment… Expand