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Lo Presti A, Costantini A, Akkermans J, Sartori R, De Rosa A. Employability Development during Internships: A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy. JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT 2023. [DOI: 10.1177/08948453231161291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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This study adopts a resource perspective to investigate the development of graduates’ resource-based employability across a 1-year internship. We examined factors referring to agency (job crafting in the form of crafting challenges and crafting resources) and context (organizational social socialization tactics) as mechanisms contributing to employability development during initial work experiences (internships). Data were collected in Italy from 316 master graduates in psychology at three time points. Longitudinal structural equation modeling results showed that baseline employability was positively associated with job crafting. However, job crafting was only significantly associated with employability at the end of the internship among those reporting high crafting resources and medium-to-high organizational social socialization tactics. Hence, beyond a focus on proactivity only, organizational support and opportunities to form social networks are essential to sustain interns’ employability development.
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- Alessandro Lo Presti
- Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Degli Studi Della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Department of Management and Organization, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Degli Studi Della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
- Department of Management and Organization, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Wang Z, Jiang F. It is not only what you do, but why you do it: The role of attribution in employees' emotional and behavioral responses to illegitimate tasks. JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Sheng Z, Griffin MA. Job insecurity, employability, and mental health in the new era: A test of plausible influence mechanisms and temporal effects. Stress Health 2022; 39:384-403. [PMID: 35986939 DOI: 10.1002/smi.3190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 07/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Although job insecurity and employability have drawn much research attention, the plausible relationships between them and how they jointly influence mental health remain unclear in the literature. We draw upon JD-R and COR theories to test and contrast three plausible relationships between job insecurity and employability, using a longitudinal sample of 1216 employees over 18 years. We further expand tests of these theoretical positions by considering temporal dynamics, using dynamic structural equation models (DSEMs) for stronger mediation evidence and latent growth models (LGMs) to compare the effects of job insecurity and employability trends in predicting the trend of mental health. In general, findings showed that job insecurity mediated the relationship between employability and mental health, supporting the mediation hypothesis. We also found that employability moderated the relationship between job insecurity and mental health, supporting the moderation hypothesis, although the effect was weak. Results further suggested that the effect magnitudes of job insecurity and employability predicting mental health were significantly different. Specifically, job insecurity was a stronger predictor of mental health than employability across all 18 years; the trend of job insecurity also predicted the trend of mental health more strongly than the trend of employability. Taken together, this study not only advances theory precision but also methodological soundness of research on job insecurity, employability, and mental health, supporting the value of considering temporal factors in examining mental health effects of job insecurity and employability.
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- Zitong Sheng
- Future of Work Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Future of Work Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Bazzoli A, Probst TM. Taking stock and moving forward: A textual statistics approach to synthesizing four decades of job insecurity research. ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/20413866221112386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We collected the abstracts of manuscripts examining job insecurity published between 1984 and 2019 and carried out a textual analysis to investigate the defining clusters, their development over time, and whether there was evidence of siloed knowledge. Results suggested that job insecurity research seems to be fragmented into disciplinary foci (organizational psychology, public health, economics, and sociology). Further analyses on the organizational psychology corpus, revealed 25 topics with distinct temporal trajectories: some were increasing (analytical advances and differentiation between cognitive and affective job insecurity) while other were decreasing (scale development). The remaining abstracts revealed 15 topics with more stable trajectories. Based on these results, we identified five areas for future organizational research on job insecurity: the changing labor market, the need to better understand the experiences of marginalized workers and non-work outcomes of job insecurity, the added-value of qualitative research, and the need to critically evaluate our assumptions as researchers. Plain Language Summary Since the paper by Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt, research on job insecurity has burgeoned. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we collected the abstracts of all peer-reviewed manuscripts examining job insecurity published between 1984 and 2019 and carried out a textual analysis using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation and the Reinert method to investigate (a) the defining clusters of job insecurity research, (b) the development of such clusters over time, and (c) whether there was any evidence of siloed knowledge. Results suggested that indeed job insecurity research seems to be fragmented into four main disciplinary foci (organizational psychology, public health, economics, and sociology) with relatively little cross-fertilization. We conducted further analyses of the abstracts stemming from organizational research on job insecurity, revealing 25 topics with distinct temporal trajectories (e.g., “hot” topics including the increasing use of advanced analytic techniques and differentiation between cognitive and affective job insecurity) and “cold” topics including the development of job insecurity measures). The remaining abstracts revealed 15 topics with more stable research interests over time (e.g., a continued reliance on appraisal theories). Based on these results, we identified five areas for future organizational research on job insecurity based on: the changing labor market, the need to better understand the experiences of marginalized workers and non-work outcomes of job insecurity, the added-value of qualitative research, and finally the need to critically evaluate our assumptions as researchers.
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- Andrea Bazzoli
- Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, USA
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Jeong M, Zo H. Preventing insider threats to enhance organizational security: The role of opportunity-reducing techniques. TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2021.101670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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van Harten J, de Cuyper N, Knies E, Forrier A. Taking the temperature of employability research: a systematic review of interrelationships across and within conceptual strands. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/1359432x.2021.1942847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Research Group Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- School of Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Economics and Business, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Delva J, Forrier A, De Cuyper N. Integrating agency and structure in employability: Bourdieu's theory of practice. JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Van Hootegem A, Sverke M, De Witte H. Does occupational self-efficacy mediate the relationships between job insecurity and work-related learning? A latent growth modelling approach. WORK AND STRESS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2021.1891585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Anahí Van Hootegem
- Research Group for Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Research Group for Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Optentia Research Focus Area, Vanderbijlpark Campus, North-West University, Vanderbijlpar, South Africa
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Epitropaki O, Marstand AF, Van der Heijden B, Bozionelos N, Mylonopoulos N, Van der Heijde C, Scholarios D, Mikkelsen A, Marzec I, Jędrzejowicz P. What are the career implications of “seeing eye to eye”? Examining the role of leader–member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes. PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/peps.12432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Olga Epitropaki
- Durham University Business School Durham University Durham UK
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- Institute for Management Research Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Department Organisation Open University of the Netherlands Heerlen the Netherlands
- Department of Marketing Innovation and Organisation, Ghent University Ghent Belgium
- Hubei Business School, Hubei University Wuhan China
- Kingston Business School, Kingston University London UK
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- Strathclyde Business School University of Strathclyde Glasgow UK
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- University of Stavanger Business School University of Stavanger Stavanger Norway
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- Department of Public Management and Social Science University of Economics in Katowice Katowice Poland
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- Department of Information Systems Gdynia Maritime University Gdynia Poland
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Chirumbolo A, Callea A, Urbini F. Job insecurity and performance in public and private sectors: a moderated mediation model. JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1108/joepp-02-2020-0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to extend our knowledge of the relationship between quantitative and qualitative job insecurity and performance. On the basis of stress theories, we hypothesised that qualitative job insecurity (QLJI) would mediate the negative effect of quantitative job insecurity (QTJI) on two different indicators of performance: task performance (TP) and counterproductive work behaviours (CPWBs). In addition, the authors hypothesised that the effect of QTJI on QLJI would be moderated by the economic sector (public vs private) in which employees worked. Therefore, the authors empirically tested a moderated mediation model via PROCESS.Design/methodology/approachParticipants were 431 employees from various Italian organisations. Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire measuring QTJI, QLJI, TP and CPWBs.FindingsThe results indicated that economic sector moderated the relationship between quantitative and QLJI. Both quantitative and QLJI were related to performance outcomes. Furthermore, QLJI mediated the effect of QTJI on TP and CPWB. However, this mediation was particularly apparent among employees in the private sector, supporting our hypothesised moderated mediation model.Practical implicationsThe results suggest that managers of private and public organisations need to apply different policies to reduce the impact of job insecurity on CPWBs and increase the TP of their employees.Originality/valueThis study attempted to examine the job insecurity–performance relationship in more depth. For the first time, the effects of both job insecurity dimensions on performance were simultaneously investigated, with economic sector as a moderator and QLJI as a mediator.
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Exploring Employability Constructions of Migrants in Sweden and Potential Consequences for Labour Market Entrance Recommendations. SOCIAL SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/socsci9030026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In the flexible Swedish labour market, the concept of employability has grown important. Within a neoliberal framework, accountability for one’s possibility to successfully obtain or keep employment rests with the individual. In contrast, within a social welfare discourse the individual is offered care and support in order to gain employment. The present study combined intersectional and discourse analytical approaches with the understanding that individual employability is subjectively constructed in the exploration of labour market induction, employability constructions and categorizations in the discourse used by government agencies directly involved in the labour market integration of newly arrived migrants. Public documents comprising information on labour market entrance, employability and associated concepts such as competence building and career development were analysed. The employability constructions were often contradictory—placed at the crossroads of neoliberal and social welfare discourses—and built on tacit assumptions and influenced by stereotypes. Conveying such employability constructions further could lead to exclusion from long-term employment and have detrimental psychological and health repercussions. Instead, it is of importance to work towards reconstructing migrants’ employability in this new context without damaging influence from inflexible categorizations and stereotypes.
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Klug K, Felfe J, Krick A. Caring for Oneself or for Others? How Consistent and Inconsistent Profiles of Health-Oriented Leadership Are Related to Follower Strain and Health. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2456. [PMID: 31780985 PMCID: PMC6851200 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Health-oriented leadership consists of three dimensions that contribute to employee health: staff care, i.e., health-specific follower-directed leadership, as well as both leaders' and followers' self care, i.e., health-specific self-leadership. This study explores profiles of follower self care, leader self care and staff care, and investigates the relationships with follower health in two samples. We identified four patterns of health-oriented leadership: A consistently positive profile (high care), a consistently negative profile (low care), and two profiles showing inconsistencies between follower self care, leader self care, and staff care (leader sacrifice and follower sacrifice). The high care profile reported the best health compared to both the low care profile and the inconsistent profiles. The follower sacrifice profile reported more strain than the leader sacrifice profile, while strain and health levels were the least favorable in the low care profile. Findings reveal that (in-)consistency between follower-directed leadership and self-leadership contributes to follower strain and health.
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- Katharina Klug
- Department of Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
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Stengård J, Berntson E, Leineweber C, Bernhard-Oettel C. Who Gets Stuck in Their Workplaces? The Role of Matching Factors, between Individual and Job, and Demographics in Predicting Being Locked In. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.16993/sjwop.56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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A social network theory perspective on how social ties influence perceived employability and job insecurity: evidence from school teachers. SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND MINING 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13278-019-0572-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Atitsogbe KA, Mama NP, Sovet L, Pari P, Rossier J. Perceived Employability and Entrepreneurial Intentions Across University Students and Job Seekers in Togo: The Effect of Career Adaptability and Self-Efficacy. Front Psychol 2019; 10:180. [PMID: 30800087 PMCID: PMC6376950 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study examined the relationship between two personal resources, career adaptability and general self-efficacy, and two career outcomes, self-perceived employability and entrepreneurial intentions in a West African context, characterized by a developing economy. A Togolese sample of 334 university students and 216 job seekers completed French versions of the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Self-Perceived Employability Scale, the Entrepreneurial Intentions Scale and an adapted form of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale. A multi-group path analysis showed that the results are similar for both groups. Career adaptability and general self-efficacy were positively related to self-perceived employability. The contribution of career adaptability was especially strong for job seekers. Only general self-efficacy was related to entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, perceived employability was positively related in some way to entrepreneurial intentions in both groups. Career adaptability seems to be especially important for employability among job seekers (activation of resources), whereas entrepreneurial intentions may be more context-dependent. Finally, perceived employability failed to mediate the relationship between personal resources and entrepreneurial intentions in both samples.
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- Kokou A Atitsogbe
- CePCO, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- National Institute of Education Sciences, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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- National Institute of Education Sciences, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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- CePCO, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,NCCR LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Urbanaviciute I, Udayar S, Maggiori C, Rossier J. Precariousness Profile and Career Adaptability as Determinants of Job Insecurity: A Three-Wave Study. JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/0894845318791777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The present study compares the mean levels and growth in job insecurity across employees’ precariousness profiles as defined by a combination of perceived employability and financial difficulties. Drawing on the labor market precariousness and workplace stress literature, we hypothesized that employees with the most precarious profile would report elevated levels of job insecurity followed by a growth trend. Moreover, career adaptability was expected to act as a resource for counteracting job insecurity. The study was based on three waves of a longitudinal “Professional Paths” survey (National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES) conducted in Switzerland. The data of 799 professionally active adults were analyzed using latent growth modeling. In line with our hypothesis, the findings showed the highest levels of job insecurity and the most pronounced growth trend among employees with the precarious profile. Interestingly, different career adaptability facets played differing roles in predicting job insecurity, potentially revealing some of its under-researched aspects.
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- Ieva Urbanaviciute
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Organizational Behavior, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Törnroos Née Kirves K, Bernhard-Oettel C, Leineweber C. Perceived employability trajectories: A Swedish cohort study. J Occup Health 2017; 59:336-344. [PMID: 28539535 PMCID: PMC5557820 DOI: 10.1539/joh.16-0295-oa] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Objectives: This study identified perceived employability trajectories and their associations with sleeping difficulties and depressive symptoms over time. Methods: The sample was part of the Swedish Longitudinal Survey on Health from 2008 to 2014 (n=4,583). Results: Two stable trajectories (high and low perceived employability over time) and three trajectories with changes (increasing, decreasing, and V-shaped perceived employability over time) were identified. Workers with stable low perceived employability reported more sleeping difficulties and depressive symptoms than those who perceived high or increasing employability. Conclusion: Perceived employability is a rather stable personal resource, which is associated with well-being over time. However, changes in perceived employability do not seem to be echoed in well-being, at least not as immediately as theoretically expected.
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De Battisti F, Gilardi S, Guglielmetti C, Siletti E. Perceived employability and reemployment: Do job search strategies and psychological distress matter? JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/joop.12156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Francesca De Battisti
- Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods; Università degli Studi di Milano; Italy
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- Department of Social and Political Sciences; Università degli Studi di Milano; Italy
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- Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods; Università degli Studi di Milano; Italy
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- Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods; Università degli Studi di Milano; Italy
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Bozionelos N, Kostopoulos K, Van der Heijden B, Rousseau DM, Bozionelos G, Hoyland T, Miao R, Marzec I, Jędrzejowicz P, Epitropaki O, Mikkelsen A, Scholarios D, Van der Heijde C. Employability and Job Performance as Links in the Relationship Between Mentoring Receipt and Career Success. GROUP & ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT 2015. [DOI: 10.1177/1059601115617086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study developed and tested a model that posited employability and job performance as intervening variables in the relationship between receipt of mentoring and career success. Participants were 207 information technology (IT) professionals employed in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in three European countries. Mentoring receipt was related to both employability and job performance. Employability mediated the relationship of mentoring receipt with objective and subjective career success, as well as its relationship with job performance. The findings indicate that receipt of mentoring is connected to job performance, a link that has hitherto lacked empirical evidence. In addition, they suggest a pivotal role for employability in the relationship of mentoring receipt with job performance and career success. Overall, this study helps unveil the mechanism through which mentoring affects career outcomes. Moreover, it shows that the benefits of mentoring hold outside the context of large corporations.
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- Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands
- University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
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Kirves K, Kinnunen U, De Cuyper N, Mäkikangas A. Trajectories of Perceived Employability and Their Associations With Well-Being at Work. JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 2014. [DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The first aim of this study was to identify trajectories of perceived employability (PE) with a longitudinal person-centered approach, accounting for both the level of PE and changes in PE. The second aim was to examine how the trajectories were related to well-being at work (i.e., vigor at work, job satisfaction, and job exhaustion) with a variable-centered approach. The data were collected in two Finnish universities (N = 926) during 2008–2010 with three measurement points. Growth Mixture Modeling identified four trajectories, which differed in level, stability, and change in PE across time: we established two trajectories with stable PE (88% of the participants), and two trajectories with a nonlinear change pattern in PE (12%). Furthermore, variable-centered analyses showed that the level of PE was positively associated with well-being at work. Moreover, in one change trajectory, the increase in PE was associated with an increase in vigor at work. Overall, these results indicate that PE can be seen as a personal resource. However, the effect of PE is minor in terms of change in employee well-being among highly educated employees.
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- Kaisa Kirves
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland
- Research Group Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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- School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland
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- Research Group Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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Selenko E, Mäkikangas A, Mauno S, Kinnunen U. How does job insecurity relate to self-reported job performance? Analysing curvilinear associations in a longitudinal sample. JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/joop.12020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Eva Selenko
- Institute of Education and Psychology, Johannes-Kepler University of Linz; Austria
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- Department of Psychology; University of Jyväskylä; Finland
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities; University of Tampere; Finland
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- School of Social Sciences and Humanities; University of Tampere; Finland
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