Military Recruitment on Facebook: an Exploratory Study into the Production of Applicant Attraction in Germany, France and the United States
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Military Recruitment on Facebook: an Exploratory Study into the Production of Applicant Attraction in Germany, France and the United States

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Military Recruitment on Facebook: an Exploratory Study into the Production of Applicant Attraction in Germany, France and the United States

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Soziale Medien wie Facebook eröffneten neue Kommunkationsmöglichkeiten fĂŒr das MilitĂ€r um sich im Arbeitsmarkt als attraktiver Arbeitgeber zu positionieren. Nach der Abschaffung der Wehrpflicht musste sich das MilitĂ€r neu und attraktiv definieren, um Rekruten im Konkurrenzmarkt gegen den privaten Sektor anzuziehen. Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie das MilitĂ€r in Deutschland, USA und Frankreich AttraktivitĂ€t produziert, mit dem Ziel, die Personalgewinnung digital zu stĂ€rken. Dabei geht es um einen cyberanthropologischen Ansatz, der mit verschiedenen quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden die Perspektive von Rekruten und der Institution erfasst. Diese interdisziplinĂ€re AnnĂ€herung auf die digitale Ebene der Kommunikation des MilitĂ€rs versucht das Spektrum der MilitĂ€ranthropologie und -soziologie auszuweiten, in dem AnsĂ€tze des Marketings und des Personalmanagements auch aufgefasst werden. So werden Employer-Branding Perspektiven des MilitĂ€rs in einem internationalen Vergleich im jeweiligen politischen Kontext und unter mehrdisziplinĂ€ren theoretischen Betrachtungen vorgestellt und analysiert. Die empirischen Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass jedes MilitĂ€r heterogen bleibt und jedoch kulturell und historisch geprĂ€gt wird, wĂ€hrend es eine AttraktivitĂ€tspolitik schafft. WĂ€hrend die deutsche Bundeswehr sich eher mit Technik und kaum mit Geschichte befasst, setzt das französische MilitĂ€r auf das zeremonielle, das design-intensive und das amerikanische MilitĂ€r eher auf Werte, Patriotismus und nationalen Ikonen, die eine IdentitĂ€t dynamisch mitaufbauen. Social Media such as Facebook opened an array of communication potentials for the military, in order to brand itself as an attractive employer on the labor market. After the elimination of conscription, the military had to redefine itself attractively in order to lure new recruits while competing against the private sector. This work addresses the question how the Armed Forces in France, Germany and the United States produce attraction with the goal of digitally strengthening their recruitment approach. Based on cyberanthropology and using both qualitative and quantitative methods, it attempts to understand the perspectives of both recruits and the institution itself. This interdisciplinary approach to the digital realm of military communication seeks to expand the spectrum of military anthropology and sociology by using elements from marketing and recruitment studies. Employer-Branding perspectives of the military are presented and analyzed in an international comparison that takes the respective political context together with different theoretical approximations into account. Empirical results suggest that each national military remains heterogenous while being influenced both culturally and historically in the process of creating an attraction-led policy for recruitment. While the German military focuses more on technology and leaves history aside, the French Armed Forces prefer the 'ceremonial' and design-intensive, whereas the US American military highlights values, patriotism and national icons that dynamically aid in building an identity.

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Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9783736998872
eBook ISBN
9783736988873
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. 1.1. Recruiutment realities
  3. 2.1. Historical development
  4. 3. Interdisciplinary
  5. 4. Theoretical Perspectives
  6. 5. Empirical study
  7. 6. Producing Applicant
  8. 7. Literature