Top employer awards: A double-edged sword?

Organizations often use top employer awards to confirm their quality as employers via an independent third party. At first, the advantages of using awards seem apparent, such as giving the organization an edge in recruitment by increasing the organizational attractiveness for jobseekers. Possible disadvantages accompanying the use of awards have received little attention. We argue that awards can cause potential applicants to pay less attention to information provided in recruitment materials that allow them to assess their organizational fit. Therefore, we investigated the influence of awards on the relationship between person–organization fit and attraction to organization as well as application decision. We include the corporate brand awareness (unknown vs. well-known) as a boundary condition. The results of our experiment show that, while awards increase organizational attractiveness, they also reduce the effect of person–organization fit on organizational attractiveness in the case of well-known organizations. Moreover, we found that awards indirectly affect application decision in the same way. Hence, successful self-selection based on fit is disturbed in this situation. Consequently, the quality of the applicant pool is reduced, resulting in a disadvantage for the well-known recruiting organization. Contrary to expectations, unknown organizations do not appear to be affected by this downside and instead benefit from awards. Our study contributes to the literature in recruiting by focusing on how awards change the impact of other information, while also highlighting potential disadvantages of employer awards.     

帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪的规范属性与解释纠偏

信息技术的发展推动网络犯罪参与结构由传统犯罪层级式的金字塔结构向扁平式的链条结构转变,使得立法增设帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪以应对犯罪参与模式的改变,解决网络犯罪行为不适应传统共同犯罪理论的难题。立法者增设帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪以规制“不契合共犯理论的帮助行为”,但未就帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪的性质加以说明。理论界关于该罪性质的探讨主要着眼于共犯性的视角,但是以共犯性解释该罪的性质又会产生正犯不存在或者难以查证时归责标准阙如、意思联络趋弱而难以认定共犯、共犯与正犯危害性异化致使按照共犯理论归责违背罪刑均衡原则等适用困境。量刑规则说、共犯正犯化等以完全共犯性为着力点的学说,忽视了帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪的正犯属性,造成了适用困境并违背了对该罪的立法初衷。故此,跳出传统的对罪名性质解释单一的桎梏,承认部分帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪的正犯性,根据“契合共犯理论的帮助行为”与“不契合共犯理论的帮助行为”的不同,在“共犯性”与“正犯性”双重视角下区分认定该罪的性质,使得同一罪名在不同的适用情形下呈现动态的性质解读,以突破现有理论的适用困境。这对于契合司法实务向多元性与不可预测性发展,应对因传统刑法理论相对滞后而导致适用冲突不断的现实难题,对纠偏帮助信息网络犯罪活动罪的适用等,尤为必要。