Abstract ABSTRACT: This article presents results of investigation of selected evaluation criteria utilized by accounting graduates when considering job offers, with special emphasis on the emergence of social responsibility as a viable factor influencing the student. Several factorial experiments were used to investigate the influence of salary, interesting work, social responsibility and opportunity for advancement on the acceptability of hypothetical job offers. The results of the study suggest three basic conclusions: (1) All of the variables studied had a positive effect upon the selection process, (2) Social responsibility affects the job selection decision when hygiene factors are present but has little effect when motivator factors are involved in the scenario, (3) The criteria tend to interact insignificantly in influencing the selection decision.
Zikmund et al. (Fri,) studied this question.