The mediating role of social informal learning in the relationship between learning climate and employability

Crans, Samantha; Gerken, Maike; Beausaert, Simon; Segers, Mien

doi:10.1108/cdi-09-2020-0234

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“…Learning promotes employability (Chukwuedo et al, 2021;Crans et al, 2021;Masood, 2021Wi sniewska, 2020. Employers want employees with industry-specific skills (Olesen, 2020;Keogh, 2021;Tyson, 2020).…”

Section: Learning Motives and Employabilitymentioning

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The desire for employability and self-exploitation: concretizing Lacan's psychoanalysis on employability

Shah

2023

EBHRM

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PurposeAlthough commitment and employability are legitimized in the current world of work, they also have a dark side that has been ignored in the extant literature. To tackle this gap, the study developed and examined a comprehensive theoretical framework including learning, motivation, commitment, employability and self-exploitation. Limited research exists that explicitly examines this relationship or explores its potential implications. The author theorizes employability as a cultural fantasy that ends up in self-exploitation.Design/methodology/approachThe study concretizes Lacan's (1977; 1981 and 1988) psychoanalysis, utilizing a sample of 658 subjects from eight industries. The hypothesized relationships were examined using structural equation modeling (SEM) in AMOS.FindingsThe findings provided support for the hypothesized relationships. Employability escorts to self-exploitation. Those employees who try to remain relevant to their firms continue to engage in employability activities end up being exploited in this process.Research limitations/implicationsThe study provides a new roadmap to scholars of employability who wish to explore the domain further.Practical implicationsThe theoretical knowledge from this research will inform practice. It will influence managers and policymakers in the organization as well as politicians. Although the macroaspects of the organizational environment are beyond the control of an organization, the development efforts of the organization should be real and should not estrange individuals from their true nature. The real intent should be to unite the individual with its true nature. This way, it will be real development and will empower individuals rather than exploitation.Social implicationsThe finding that commitment is linked to self-exploitation via employability has implications for managers and policymakers. To avoid estrangement and exploitation, the organization should focus on employee real development. To have an ideal workplace, where employees unite with their nature, the organization should invest in employees, focus on their real needs, emphasize their career prospects and constantly provide them with learning and growth opportunities. In addition to material compensation, the organization should connect people with their true spirit. An organization that is concerned with people's real needs and real development will have a pool of human capital that will create real value for the organization and society as well.Originality/valueThe dark side of employability has been ignored in the extant literature. Limited research exists that explicitly examines this relationship or explores its potential implications. This study is an initiative for such debate.

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Section: Learning Motives and Employabilitymentioning

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The desire for employability and self-exploitation: concretizing Lacan's psychoanalysis on employability

Shah

2023

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“…In the current context, when employees, without prior training, are required to adapt to the pandemic and the changes at work, more mistakes are bound to happen. Hence, having a high learning from mistake climate denotes the important aspects of making those mistakes known, being communicative and having employees learn from one another, with this termed “social informal learning” ( Crans et al, 2021 ). A high learning from mistake climate also acknowledges that mistakes are acceptable and can be used to improve the current system to reduce and prevent future incidents ( Gu et al, 2013 ).…”

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Learning from mistakes climate scale: Development and validation

Lee

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Learning from mistakes plays an important role in employee development; however, such a learning scale has not yet been developed. The objective of this study was to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Learning from Mistakes Climate Scale (LMCS) in Malaysia. A pool of items was first developed based on the literature, with an expert panel then convened to select items that met the definition of learning from mistake climate in the workplace, specifically in Malaysia. The experts agreed on 23 items to be rated. In total, 554 working adults with a mean age of 32.28 were then recruited for this study. The LMCS was administered at baseline and 10–14 days later as a retest: 468 participants took part in the retest study, a dropout rate of 15.52%. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the LMCS is a 17-item one-factor model. Validity, in its various forms, was supported, namely convergent validity, criterion validity, and predictive validity. Analysis also showed significant reliability, that is, test–retest reliability and in all intra-class correlations. The LMCS was found to be a valid and reliable instrument to assess the learning from mistake climate in Malaysia. This is the first scale in the organizational learning climate literature to integrate the mistake tolerance aspect. This instrument can assist in creating a psychologically safe work environment that helps to facilitate learning, especially in a highly hierarchical, collectivistic culture that is high in power distance.

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“…A more supportive, safer and interactive environment can mitigate the effects of socioeconomic differences among students (Berkowitz, 2016). Thus, the positive school climate is a powerful tool in coping with the early dropout (Kotok, Ikoma, & Bodovski, 2016), and it has an important potential for increasing disadvantaged students' employability (Crans et al, 2021). Considering that human capital is among the most important resources that countries have (Becker, 1962;Özer, 2021a), improving the school climate is a key factor for national development.…”

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School-Based Improvement in VET: “The 1,000 Schools in Vocational Education and Training Project”

Özer

2022

Bartın Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Vocational education and training (VET) faces a significant transformation after the 2000s, due to the widespread use of automation and artificial intelligence-based production technologies. VET also has other troubles including higher student flow to academic track and higher rate of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in VET institutions. In this context, it is of great importance to improve the school climate of VET institutions. The "1,000 Schools in Vocational Education and Training Project" was initiated by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) in order to extend the paradigm shift in recent years in VET. This study aims to evaluate how school-based improvements are made across Turkey in the project. The project, which is the largest-scale programme for the improvement of Turkish VET system, covered approximately 25% of VET high schools in Turkey. Within the scope of the project, 1,000 disadvantaged schools based on education indicators were selected. As a part of a multi-staged support; more than one hundred thousand students attended academic support programs, and more than four hundred thousand students attended psychosocial support and trainings for coping with addiction trainings. The number of participants in pedagogical and leadership skill programme for teachers and school administrators has exceeded three hundred thousand. Parents' participation in open secondary schools, open high schools and vocational courses was encouraged, and more than eleven thousand parents attended these trainings. Within the improving of schools' physical infrastructure, new laboratories and libraries were established and workshops were renovated in schools. The project has proven that the school climate can be improved via a multi-staged support and it has become a practical model for the "10,000 Schools in Primary Education Project".

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The mediating role of social informal learning in the relationship between learning climate and employability

Cited by 10 publications

References 79 publications

The desire for employability and self-exploitation: concretizing Lacan's psychoanalysis on employability

The desire for employability and self-exploitation: concretizing Lacan's psychoanalysis on employability

Learning from mistakes climate scale: Development and validation

School-Based Improvement in VET: “The 1,000 Schools in Vocational Education and Training Project”

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