Abstract
Germany is the largest national economy in Europe, with a stable GDP growth, a highly productive labor force and a low unemployment rate. As a social market economy Germany has a well-developed welfare system with a social security and a universal health care system. There is a relatively strong state regulation, institutionalized stakeholder participation and consensual decision-making inside firms and progressive environmental policies. German companies perform well in environment related CSR, but middle rate in other areas of CSR. Socio-ecological responsibility and governance and ethics, however, play a minor role for employer attractiveness whereas aspects such as work atmosphere, work-life balance and family friendly policies are a key concern.
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A more recent Randstad survey (2018) changed the attribute to “giving back to society”, which is not comparable to environmental and social awareness.
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As explained in chapter “Research Methodology and Procedure”, these values express the relative importance or utility of the respective attribute in comparison to the other attributes; the sum of all utility values equals 100.
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Please note that Fig. 2 depicts the differences in the standardised average utilities between clusters and not the “real” utilities.
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Bustamante, S. (2021). Germany. In: Bustamante, S., Pizzutilo, F., Martinovic, M., Herrero Olarte, S. (eds) Corporate Social Responsibility and Employer Attractiveness. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68861-5_6
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