Impact of corporate identity on reputation and employer’s brand

Keywords: corporate identity, employer’s brand, employer, employees, reputation, korporativni identitet, brend poslodavca, poslodavac, zaposleni, reputacija

Abstract


The study focuses on the area of ​​corporate identity and its correlation to reputation and employer’s brand. As competition in the labor market grows, more companies, in particular, are investing their efforts and resources in employer brand development that would be attractive to both current and potential employees. If the organization wants to be perceived as a desirable place for work and the employer as ideal, consistent corporate communication and harmonization of internal, employee-to-employee and external-employee-to-employee communications are required. The purpose of the paper is to examine the conditions under which it is possible to create a good reputation and an attractive employer brand through corporate identity and thus gain a competitive advantage in the labor market. Our interest is to determine what attributes need to be met to create an attractive brand for an employer with a good reputation.

Author Biography

Jaroslav Bednárik
Biography

He has been working at the UCM in Trnava since 1997 and at the FMK UCM since 2003. He graduated in industrial enterprises management at the Faculty of Materials Technology of STU in Trnava. In 2009 he completed his doctoral studies at the same faculty, where he obtained his PhD. In 2012 he habilitated at the Faculty of Mass Media Studies at the Faculty of Economics, UCM in Trnava. He has practical experience in the field of human resources management, also as a manager.

His scientific research and publishing activities are focused on human resource management and personnel marketing, crisis management and crisis communication and socially responsible business. He is the author or co-author of several scientific monographs, university textbooks, textbooks and other publications in domestic and foreign journals and proceedings, which are also indexed in international databases.

In the previous period he served as Vice-Rector for Development of UCM. He is a member of the UCM Scientific Council and the Scientific Council of the UCM FMK. He is a member of the Departmental Council for Doctoral Studies, a member of several editorial boards of professional journals and scientific boards of conferences, a member of state examination committees, a member of selection committees for PhD studies, a member of committees for dissertation examinations, an evaluator of VEGA and KEGA projects. He is also a co-guarantor of the study programme in Mass Media Studies and a member of the Quality Council of the FMK UCM in Trnava.

 

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Published
2023/06/20
Section
Original Scientific Paper