Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability
By acknowledging the uncertainty and unpredictability of the job search process in an unemployment setting, the present study explored the predictive strength of dispositional employability in job search behaviours. Dispositional employability has been recognized as a potentially important personal...
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| description | By acknowledging the uncertainty and unpredictability of the job search process in an unemployment setting, the present study explored the predictive strength of dispositional employability in job search behaviours. Dispositional employability has been recognized as a potentially important personal resource that promotes job opportunities. However, it has rarely been assessed in an unemployment setting to date. According to recent employability models that differentiate between distal (i.e., personal strengths) and proximal (e.g., perceived employability) determinants of behaviour on the labour market, we hypoth- esized that: (i) dispositional employability relates positively to job search intensity and (ii) perception of one’s employment possibilities (i.e., perceived employability) serves as an explanatory mechanism of this relationship. The hypothesized structural model was tested among a heterogeneous sample of 533 unemployed persons in Croatia. The results of structural equation modelling provided support for our hypotheses: dispositional employability related positively to job search intensity via perceived employ- ability. Accordingly, nurturing dispositional employability may be beneficial for unemployed persons as it relates positively to engagement in job search behaviour. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00fc271898b149e9abfe77362719204d2023-04-17T07:42:13ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology2002-28672017-03-01211110.16993/sjwop.9166Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional EmployabilityJasmina Tomas0Darja Maslić Seršić1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, HRDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, HRBy acknowledging the uncertainty and unpredictability of the job search process in an unemployment setting, the present study explored the predictive strength of dispositional employability in job search behaviours. Dispositional employability has been recognized as a potentially important personal resource that promotes job opportunities. However, it has rarely been assessed in an unemployment setting to date. According to recent employability models that differentiate between distal (i.e., personal strengths) and proximal (e.g., perceived employability) determinants of behaviour on the labour market, we hypoth- esized that: (i) dispositional employability relates positively to job search intensity and (ii) perception of one’s employment possibilities (i.e., perceived employability) serves as an explanatory mechanism of this relationship. The hypothesized structural model was tested among a heterogeneous sample of 533 unemployed persons in Croatia. The results of structural equation modelling provided support for our hypotheses: dispositional employability related positively to job search intensity via perceived employ- ability. Accordingly, nurturing dispositional employability may be beneficial for unemployed persons as it relates positively to engagement in job search behaviour.https://account.sjwop.com/index.php/su-j-sjwop/article/view/9dispositional employabilityperceived employabilityjob search behaviourunemployment |
| spellingShingle | Jasmina Tomas Darja Maslić Seršić Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology dispositional employability perceived employability job search behaviour unemployment |
| title | Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability |
| title_full | Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability |
| title_fullStr | Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability |
| title_short | Searching for a Job on the Contemporary Labour Market: The Role of Dispositional Employability |
| title_sort | searching for a job on the contemporary labour market the role of dispositional employability |
| topic | dispositional employability perceived employability job search behaviour unemployment |
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