Prestigious Employer Preference: Scale Development and Evaluation

Conspicuous employment is the prestige-oriented behaviour of employers and employees on the job market. Prestigious employer preference (PEP) describes an individual’s motivational component to prefer highly reputable employers for status concerns. In this chapter, I report the scale development of the PEP scale by reiterating the theoretical foundations and rigorous contextualisation, the evaluation of the initial draft, pilot and revision versions of the scale, and the findings of the exploration into the nomological network.