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1. Turning small business interns into
applicants: The mediating role of
perceived justice
Presenter: Amber Liang
Instructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Hsu
Date: March 10, 2014
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2. Citation
Zhao, H. (2013). Turning Small Business
Interns into Applicants: The Mediating
Role of Perceived Justice. Journal of
Business Venturing, 28(3), 443-457.
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6. Literature Review
In the past decade, attention has been given
to the recruitment-related effectiveness of
such programs (Lahm & Heriot, 2009).
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7. Gap
Entrepreneurship literature examines many
challenges entrepreneurs face in the new
venture startup process.
when been asked for their biggest businessrelated problem, entrepreneurs agree on a
seemingly surprising answer, staffing.
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8. Purpose of the study
The paper is to examine how interns can be
encouraged to become permanent employees
in small business.
Internships are a relatively low-risk approach
for entrepreneurs to expand their social ties
and attract prospective employees to join.
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9. Value
The study contributes to the emerging
literature at the intersection of human
resource management and entrepreneurship.
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10. Literature review
Research model
Small business internship
Job-seeking goal & intention to join
Internship as a realistic job preview
Perceived justice
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12. Small business internship
Internship is the “structured and career relevant
work experiences obtained by students prior to
graduation from an academic program.”
(Taylor, 1988)
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13. Small business internship
More importantly, internships do not require longterm employment commitment on employers’ part,
thus entrepreneurs can use internships as an
excellent “try-before-you-buy” method of staffing.
(Lahm & Heriot, 2009)
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14. Job-seeking goal & intention
to join
Someone who follow temporal sequence of action
phases, goal development and evaluating the
outcome.
(Gollwitzer et al., 2012)
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15. Job-seeking goal & intention
to join
The relationship between goal intentions and
lagged implementation intentions is also
empirically supported.
(Brandstatter et al., 2003)
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16. Internship as a realistic job
preview
An assumption is certainly questionable in reality
where the time lag between goal intention and
action can be so long that “during this period
applicants gain new information and may reevaluate
their intentions”.
(Carless, 2003)
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17. Perceived justice
Organization literature suggests that perceptions
of justice “play central role” in explaining
employees’ intentions to quit.
(Dailey & Kirk, 1992)
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18. Perceived justice
Research has shown employees’ involvement in
organization life increases their perception of
justice.
(Kanfer et al., 1995)
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19. Hypotheses
H1a: Small business interns’ pre-internship job seeking is
positively related to their post-internship intention to
join the organization.
H1b: Small business interns’ during-internship involvement
with their organization is positively related to their
post-internship intention to join the organization.
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20. Hypotheses
H1c: Small business interns’ involvement with their
organization is positively related to their post-internship
justice perception.
H1d: Small business interns’ post-internship justice perception
is positively related to their post-internship intention to
join.
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21. Hypotheses
H2a:The positive effect of interns’ job-seeking goal on their
intentions to join is stronger among corporate interns
than among small business interns.
H2b:The positive effect of involvement on interns’ intentions
to join is stronger among small business interns than
among corporate interns.
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22. Hypotheses
H2c:The positive effect of involvement on justice perception is
stronger among small business interns than among
corporate interns.
H2d:The positive effect of justice perception on intention to
join is stronger among small business interns than among
corporate interns.
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30. Standardized path coefficients
Perceived justice
T3
.52**
.23*
Involvement
T2
.30**
Intention to join
T3
H1a：Small business interns’ preinternship job seeking is positively
related to their post-internship
intention to join the organization.
Not supported
.01
Job-seeking
T1
H1b：: Small business interns’ duringinternship involvement with their organization
is positively related to their post-internship
intention to join the organization.
Supported
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31. Standardized path coefficients
Perceived justice
T3
.52**
.23*
Involvement
T2
.30**
Intention to join
T3
H1c：Small business interns
involvement with their organization
is positively related to their postinternship justice perception.
Not supported
.01
Job-seeking
T1
H1d：Small business interns’ post-internship
justice perception is positively related to their
post-internship intention to join.
Supported
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32. conclusion
Entrepreneurs are often celebrated as heroes who
depart from the crowd, but creating and managing a
new venture are never a lonely game.
Entrepreneurs need to recruit additional human
input to staff their growing business.
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33. Critiques &
suggestions
The paper didn’t mention the participants
clearly. For example, the students’ gender
quantity.
Maybe it could be better to introduce the
small business kinds that readers could
understand the students’ work contents.
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