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Cultural values and the P-O fit: comparative NLP analysis of German online job advertisements

  • Purpose Within the Person-Organization fit framework and Signalling Theory, this study investigates the performance of word dictionaries detecting cultural values in online job advertisements as one form of external communication of an organization. Based upon a merge of the dictionaries, a corporate value analysis of Germany is conducted. Design/methodology/approach The study builds on a dataset (n > 151 k) of online job advertisements which were scraped from a German job portal. It was pre-processed according to natural language processing standards. For analysing the values of an organization a dictionary based word count was applied. Therefore, the current state-of-the-art dictionaries were tested, and an enhanced dictionary was developed and translated from English to German. Finally, a cluster analysis was conducted. Findings This study supports the possibility of measuring cultural values in texts where the enhanced dictionary based on Ponitzovskiy shows the best results. It thereby supports the use of the Universal Value Structure model (Schwartz, 1992) as well as the Signalling Theory (Guest et al., 2021), that values spread across 10 core or 4 aggregated dimensions are communicated via online job advertisements. Finally, the study offers a profile of the German corporate culture average as well as 4 cultural clusters and separate organizations, all with different profiles. Originality/value This study develops an enhanced dictionary based on a large dataset of online job advertisements for analysing the external communication of values or culture of an organization for improving the Person-Organization fit.

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URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-19987
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/EBHRM-05-2023-0120
Author:Marcel HeroldORCiDGND, Marc RoedenbeckORCiDGND
Parent Title (English):Evidence-based HRM
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Publication:2025
Publisher:Emerald
Faculties an central facilities:Fachbereich Wirtschaft, Informatik, Recht
Year of first Publication:2024
Publishing Institution:Technische Hochschule Wildau
Tag:culture; job advertisement; natural language processing; person-organization fit
Source:Herold, M. and Roedenbeck, M. (2025), "Cultural values and the P-O fit: comparative NLP analysis of German online job advertisements", Evidence-based HRM, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 230-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBHRM-05-2023-0120
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 006 Spezielle Computerverfahren
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 65 Management, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / 659 Werbung, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International
Release Date:2025/02/12
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