Assessing the construct validity of the Career Agility Scale for measuring adult workers’ digital era adaptive readiness

Coetzee, Melinde; Ferreira, Nádia; Potgieter, Ingrid L.

doi:10.1080/14330237.2021.1952725

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Section: Dual Career Agility Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Career agility is a contemporary construct that denotes individuals' career adaptivity readiness or willingness to adapt to and proactively respond to technological-driven changes for sustainable career growth, success and employability (Coetzee et al, 2021a;Giulioni, 2021;Konstant, 2020;Paulino, 2020). Coetzee et al (2021a) describe three facets of career agility, namely technological adaptivity, agile learning and career navigation. Technological adaptivity denotes an optimism towards technological advancement and change, including an eagerness to update one's skills and knowledge to adapt to, capitalise on, and search out the new job and career opportunities made possible by technological advancement.…”

Section: Dual Career Agility Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The career agility scale (CAS) (Coetzee et al, 2021a, p. 356) measures three facets of career agility (technological adaptivity, agile learning and career navigation) on a 7-point Likert-type scale (1: strongly disagree; 7: strongly agree). Coetzee et al (2021a) reported construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the CAS. The present research used participants' scores on combinations of the three facets of career agility as described by Coetzee (2021, p. 38).…”

Section: Measuring Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…People's career agility matters in today's more turbulent world of work. Career agility denotes individuals' appropriate and speedy responsiveness to technological-driven change (Coetzee, Ferreira, & Potgieter, 2021a;Giulioni, 2021;Konstant, 2020;Paulino, 2020). Career agility matters because individuals strive for career satisfaction and success that are engendered when they sustain their employability and are able to autonomously craft meaningful careers that support a sustainable livelihood (Coetzee & Schreuder, 2021;Konstant, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Career agility enables individuals to embrace and capitalise on the new work and career opportunities offered by the digital era employment market (Coetzee et al, 2021a;Giulioni, 2021;Konstant, 2020). However, along with changes in the work environment, the relationships between individuals and organisations as spaces offering work and career development opportunities are becoming more complex (McElroy & Weng, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychological states of career wellbeing and affective commitment as predictors of dual career agility types

Coetzee

2021

African Journal of Career Development

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Background: There is limited empirical research on the construct of career agility and the relevance of dual career agility types in the technological-driven workplace.Objective: This study aimed to adopt a person-centred approach in assessing the link between dual career agility types and individuals’ psychological states of career wellbeing and affective commitment.Method: The cross-sectional survey involved a sample of (n = 298) managers (71%) and staff (29%) employed in the human resource and financial services industry. The sample comprised of men (54%), women (46%), including black people (62%) and white people (38%) with a mean age of 38.58 years.Results: The results provided deeper insight into the psychological states of career wellbeing and affective commitment that accounted for the personally-autonomous motives that are embedded in the three dual career agility types.Conclusion: The findings brought a more holistic understanding of the nature of person-centred career agility motives and the psychological states that elucidate these motives. The findings bring new insights that might foster optimal career development and employees’ adaptation to the post-COVID pandemic digital era workplace.

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Section: Dual Career Agility Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dual Career Agility Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Measuring Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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