Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force
We describe how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals), in this case I-deals focused on workers’ employability enhancement, can serve as a powerful strategic HR tool for simultaneously meeting both the strategic goals of employers and the career goals of employees. Building on a sustainable career perspectiv...
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| author | Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Aukje Nauta Mel Fugate Ans De Vos Ans De Vos Nikos Bozionelos |
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| description | We describe how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals), in this case I-deals focused on workers’ employability enhancement, can serve as a powerful strategic HR tool for simultaneously meeting both the strategic goals of employers and the career goals of employees. Building on a sustainable career perspective, I-deals are interpreted as highly valuable, as they can help individual employees to more easily adapt to the fast-changing environments that nowadays characterize society and the labor market. After theoretical outlines on the concepts of I-deals and employability, we argue that I-deals can form the basis for integrative employment relationships aimed at employability enhancement. This article concludes with concrete recommendations for practice, indicating that in order to enable the sound use of I-deals as a strategic HR tool, organizations should discuss I-deals and employability openly through constructive dialogue. Moreover, examples for achieving this through specific practices, such as working with employability coaches and world cafés on employability, are described. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25dd81b45a094a568790247c5994909e2022-12-21T20:01:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-11-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.769867769867Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work ForceBeatrice Van der Heijden0Beatrice Van der Heijden1Beatrice Van der Heijden2Beatrice Van der Heijden3Beatrice Van der Heijden4Aukje Nauta5Mel Fugate6Ans De Vos7Ans De Vos8Nikos Bozionelos9Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NetherlandsFaculty of Management, Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, NetherlandsDepartment of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumSchool of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaKingston Business School, Kingston University, London, United KingdomDepartment of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, NetherlandsDepartment of Management and Information Systems, College of Business at Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United StatesNext Generation Work expertise centre, Antwerp Management School, Antwerp, BelgiumFaculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium0EMLyon Business School, Écully, FranceWe describe how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals), in this case I-deals focused on workers’ employability enhancement, can serve as a powerful strategic HR tool for simultaneously meeting both the strategic goals of employers and the career goals of employees. Building on a sustainable career perspective, I-deals are interpreted as highly valuable, as they can help individual employees to more easily adapt to the fast-changing environments that nowadays characterize society and the labor market. After theoretical outlines on the concepts of I-deals and employability, we argue that I-deals can form the basis for integrative employment relationships aimed at employability enhancement. This article concludes with concrete recommendations for practice, indicating that in order to enable the sound use of I-deals as a strategic HR tool, organizations should discuss I-deals and employability openly through constructive dialogue. Moreover, examples for achieving this through specific practices, such as working with employability coaches and world cafés on employability, are described.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769867/fullI-dealsemployabilitysustainable career perspectiveintegrative employment relationshiphuman resource management |
| spellingShingle | Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Beatrice Van der Heijden Aukje Nauta Mel Fugate Ans De Vos Ans De Vos Nikos Bozionelos Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force Frontiers in Psychology I-deals employability sustainable career perspective integrative employment relationship human resource management |
| title | Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force |
| title_full | Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force |
| title_fullStr | Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force |
| title_short | Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force |
| title_sort | ticket to ride i deals as a strategic hr tool for an employable work force |
| topic | I-deals employability sustainable career perspective integrative employment relationship human resource management |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769867/full |
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