Abstract
Employability refers to an individual’s ability to obtain and maintain employment. As this ability depends on individual, organizational, and labor market factors, capturing employability remains complex and different approaches exist. Individual level approaches differentially emphasize competencies, dispositions, or perceptions of internal and external employability. At the organizational level, employability investments are necessary for organizational competitiveness, but such investments may enable employable workers to move to competitors. Concurrently, organizations can use employability investments for retaining workers on precarious contracts in labor markets where workers compete for employment. Labor market approaches to employability recognize this notion of competition by incorporating industry-specific labor supply and -demand in describing employability. Additionally, recent work argues for sustainable employability to incorporate minimization of harm to individuals’ health and well-being as they compete in changing labor markets. This entry discusses these different approaches to employability to offer an accessible and critical pathway into the rich employability literature.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology |
Editors | P. Matthijs Bal |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Chapter | 40 |
Pages | 195-201 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781803921761 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781803921754 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 23 Jul 2024 |
Keywords
- Competence-based approach
- Dispositional approach
- Health and well-being
- Internal and external employability
- Labor market
- Sustainable employability