Employment and employability: Foundation of the new social contract

From Theory to Tech

“…Education, training, and professional experience are all basic to competences development. It is, therefore, important that investing in human capital will go a long way in enhancing flexibility, adaptability, and employability due to the fact that such people develop acquired sets of competences which are in demand within the labor market (Alvarez et al, 2022;De Fillipi & Arthur, 1996;Ellig, 1998).…”

Job Crafting, Task Performance, and Employability: The Role of Work Engagement

“…In the broadest sense, perceived employability is the individual's perception of finding a job, staying in this job and his/her capacity to change jobs and organizations (Clarke & Patrickson, 2008). In other words, perceived employability is conceptualized as an employee's possibilities of staying and progressing in his or her current organization and re-entering the labor market after leaving his/her organization (Ellig, 1998). These definitions break down perceived employability into two categories: inward and outward employability (Rothwell & Arnold, 2007).…”

The Concept of Employability

“…Gazier concludes that while earlier versions of the concept of employability have fallen away, having been exposed as too static and one-sided, 'labour market performance employability' remains a basic component of policy evaluation (although, notably, it is not explicitly attached to any more general view of employability), while 'initiative employability' has retained a limited role in HRD thinking. Indeed, human resource development literature has continued to use employability as an important explanatory and descriptive concept, with employer -employee relations no longer being seen as being based on the traditional model of reciprocal loyalty (Rajan, 1997;Ellig, 1998;Baruch, 2001). Instead, they involve a form of personal, psychological contract from which the individual seeks: a sense of balance between personal time and work; a form of work organisation that allows autonomy to concentrate on specifically defined objectives; and, personal development made possible through continuous learning that adds to individual employability.…”