Description
Employability is attracting growing attention from researchers and practitioners alike given the contemporary employment landscape – one characterized by technological changes, ageing populations, and competitive organizational environments. This interest is in part motivated by the realisation that employability implies a win-win situation as employable workers have stocks of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and they are flexible and open to change. However, the role of the employer and specifically their investments in Human Resource Management policies and practices are largely absent in the current employability discourse. Employability is usually regarded as an individual asset in which employees carry almost all responsibility for employability maintenance and development. Remarkably little has been done to remedy the neglect of the employer perspective and advance knowledge and practice.
This book brings together contributions from an international team of renowned management scholars who explore how Human Resource Management investments affect workers’ employability. Drawing on empirical evidence from all over the world, this book informs researchers, practitioners, and students in the fields of business and management, especially those with a particular interest in HRM and organizational behaviour.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Table of Contents
Introduction: HRM and employability: Mutual gains or conflicting Outcomes?
Jasmijn van Harten, Nele De Cuyper, David Guest, et al.
1. The role of temporal focus, dispositional employability, and training on the perceived internal career prospects of talents
Jean-Luc Cerdin, Yuan Liao and Kushal Sharma
2. Evaluating the employability paradox: When does organizational investment in human capital pay off?
Ricardo Rodrigues, Christina L. Butler and David Guest
3. You care about me, but can I count on you? Applying a psychological contract perspective to investigate what makes employees willing to be internally employable
Elizabeth Solberg, Émilie Lapointe and Anders Dysvik
4. Still feeling employable with growing age? Exploring the moderating effects of developmental HR practices and country-level unemployment rates in the age – employability relationship
Silvia Dello Russo, Emma Parry, Janine Bosak, et al.
