Testing the Validity and Reliability of the Perceived Employability Scale (PES) Among a Culturally Diverse Population

Daniels, Judy; D’Andrea, Michael; Gaughen, Kiaka J. S.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1920.1998.tb00993.x

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“…Hoyt refers to these capabilities as 'transferable skills' [49]. Examples of behavioural capabilities that are included in employability research include independence, growth need [19], openness to experiences [25], getting along with co-workers [50] and flexibility [51]. 'Knowing whom' may also be considered a behavioural capability [3].…”

Section: Abilitymentioning

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The concept employability: a complex mosaic

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Sels

2003

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Abstract:Since lifetime employment within the same organisation is no longer a prerogative for all, job security has to be safeguarded differently. In this respect, 'lifetime employability' instead of 'lifetime employment' is often put forward as the new protection in the labour market. Although employability became a buzzword in organisational literature, no clear consensus about its meaning and measurement can be found. In this paper, we bring some clarification to the debate about employability. We develop a conceptual model of the 'employability process'. This conceptual model offers a framework for future empirical research on employability. It can help to identify the main factors that may influence labour market transitions for individuals. In addition, it may clarify the role government and employers can play in shaping these career moves.

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Section: Abilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…the individuals' belief in their possibilities of successfully carrying out certain tasks or displaying certain behaviour. In the context of employability, 'career self-efficacy' [50] or 'work self-efficacy' [19] are studied.…”

Section: Abilitymentioning

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The concept employability: a complex mosaic

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Sels

2003

IJHRDM

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“…Feeling employable potentially provides the individual with a feeling of security and a feeling of independence towards environmental circumstances. A few studies have focused on this concept (Daniels, D'Andrea, & Gaughen, 1998;Rothwell & Arnold, 2007), although it is very rare for one to include an empirical investigation of the meaning of perceived employability.…”

Section: Perceived or Actual Employabilitymentioning

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“…Other scholars take it even further when they use the terms employability and self-efficacy interchangeably. Accordingly, employability has been considered by some to be the same as career selfefficacy (Daniels et al, 1998), while others have preferred to look upon it as an indicator of general self-efficacy (Washington, 1999).…”

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“…It could even be argued that employability is a form of self-evaluation like self-efficacy (Daniels et al, 1998;Washington, 1999). However, in the employability literature, few scholars actually address this issue in any depth, although some have indicated that different self-evaluations can affect how people view their chances of finding new employment.…”

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Employability perceptions: Nature, determinants, and implications for health and well-being

Berntson¹

2008

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The general aim of the present thesis is to increase our understanding of perceived employability. Employability perceptions refer to individuals' beliefs about their possibilities of finding new, equal, or better employment. How people perceive their possibilities of getting employment is important in a labour market characterised by flexibility and uncertainty, and the present thesis sets out to investigate the nature, determinants, and implications of employability perceptions, using two population-based samples. In Study I, the aim was to study if employability and self-efficacy are two distinct but related constructs and, along with this, to investigate the nature of their association. The results from this study indicated that employability was distinct from self-efficacy and, furthermore, that employability predicted subsequent self-efficacy. In Study II, the aim was to identify predictors of perceived employability. The combination of situational and individual factors was identified as important for employability perceptions. National economic prosperity, living/working in metropolitan areas, poor physical and good psychological work environments, formal education, and competency development were found to be positively associated with perceived employability. The aim of Study III was to investigate if employability could predict subsequent health and well-being. The results from this study implied that individuals who reported higher levels of employability also reported better global health and mental well-being, but not physical complaints, one year later, after controlling for work environment variables and previous health status. In conclusion, the present thesis has implications for theory as well as practice when it concludes that employability is not primarily a self-evaluation, that it is dependent on individual as well as situational factors, and that it has implications for health and well-being.Keywords: employability, employability perceptions, flexibility, individualisation, changing labour market, self-evaluation, self-efficacy, dual labour market, human capital, health, well-being. SammanfattningVad innebär det att vara anställningsbar? Vilka faktorer påverkar en individs bedömning av sin anställningsbarhet? Handlar anställningsbarhet om en persons allmänna självuppfattning eller handlar det om faktiska kunskaper, meriter och erfarenheter från tidigare arbeten? Vilken roll spelar det sammanhang en person befinner sig i, t ex konjunkturläge eller var i landet man bor? Vilken påverkan har anställningsbarheten på en individs hälsa och välbefinnande? Detta är frågor som står i centrum i denna avhandling.Att vara anställningsbar innebär att man kan skaffa sig ett nytt, likvärdigt eller bättre, arbete när detta är nödvändigt. I takt med att arbetslivet har blivit mer föränderligt och flexibelt blir upplevelsen av att vara anställningsbar intressant att studera, eftersom själva upplevelsen har konsekvenser för hur en person reagerar och agerar på händelser i sin omgivning. I föreliggande...

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The association between workers' employability and burnout in a reorganization context: Longitudinal evidence building upon the conservation of resources theory.

Cuyper

Raeder

Heijden

et al. 2012

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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This longitudinal study probes the relationship between employability and burnout among employees from a company undergoing reorganization. We advanced employability as a personal resource that relates negatively to burnout. We expected that this hypothesis would hold for different operationalizations of employability, including (1) job-related and (2) transferable skills, (3) willingness to change jobs and (4) to develop competences, (5) opportunity awareness, (6) self-esteem, and (7) self-perceived employability (i.e., perceived employment opportunities). In a similar vein, we expected that the hypothesis would hold for the different dimensions of burnout; namely emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. We used longitudinal Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) to test our hypotheses. Employees from a Swiss company undergoing a major reorganization were surveyed at three times with a total time lag of 19 months (Time 1: N = 287; Time 2: N = 128; Time 3: N = 107). Our results indicate that particularly self-esteem, but also job-related and transferable skills as indicators of one's employability were important predictors of burnout, with all relationships being negative.

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Testing the Validity and Reliability of the Perceived Employability Scale (PES) Among a Culturally Diverse Population

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

The concept employability: a complex mosaic

The concept employability: a complex mosaic

Employability perceptions: Nature, determinants, and implications for health and well-being

The association between workers' employability and burnout in a reorganization context: Longitudinal evidence building upon the conservation of resources theory.

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