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Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship
This study investigates the relationship between perceived investments in Human Resource (HR) practices and workplace commitment, from the perspective of social exchange theory. An innovative feature is that we introduce perceived employability as a potential mediator, thus bringing in a career pers...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31031670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00717 |
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author | Akkermans, Jos Tims, Maria Beijer, Susanne De Cuyper, Nele |
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description | This study investigates the relationship between perceived investments in Human Resource (HR) practices and workplace commitment, from the perspective of social exchange theory. An innovative feature is that we introduce perceived employability as a potential mediator, thus bringing in a career perspective: our argument is that perceived investments in HR practices promote feelings of employability, which then create workplace commitment. Based on a 6-week follow-up sample (N = 437) and a 1-year follow-up sample (N = 127), the results of structural equation modeling analyses mostly provided support for our hypotheses. Participation and communication practices were linked to commitment via employability (in both samples), and training and development only in the short term (6-week sample). Performance feedback and reward practices, however, were unrelated to commitment via employability. Overall, our findings show that employees bring in career considerations, employability concerns in particular, in the exchange with their employer. In addition, we contribute to filling the HRM “black box” by showing that employability might be an explanatory mechanism in the HR practices – outcome relationship. |
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spelling | pubmed-64702902019-04-26 Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship Akkermans, Jos Tims, Maria Beijer, Susanne De Cuyper, Nele Front Psychol Psychology This study investigates the relationship between perceived investments in Human Resource (HR) practices and workplace commitment, from the perspective of social exchange theory. An innovative feature is that we introduce perceived employability as a potential mediator, thus bringing in a career perspective: our argument is that perceived investments in HR practices promote feelings of employability, which then create workplace commitment. Based on a 6-week follow-up sample (N = 437) and a 1-year follow-up sample (N = 127), the results of structural equation modeling analyses mostly provided support for our hypotheses. Participation and communication practices were linked to commitment via employability (in both samples), and training and development only in the short term (6-week sample). Performance feedback and reward practices, however, were unrelated to commitment via employability. Overall, our findings show that employees bring in career considerations, employability concerns in particular, in the exchange with their employer. In addition, we contribute to filling the HRM “black box” by showing that employability might be an explanatory mechanism in the HR practices – outcome relationship. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6470290/ /pubmed/31031670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00717 Text en Copyright © 2019 Akkermans, Tims, Beijer and De Cuyper. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Akkermans, Jos Tims, Maria Beijer, Susanne De Cuyper, Nele Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship |
title | Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship |
title_full | Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship |
title_fullStr | Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship |
title_full_unstemmed | Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship |
title_short | Should Employers Invest in Employability? Examining Employability as a Mediator in the HRM – Commitment Relationship |
title_sort | should employers invest in employability? examining employability as a mediator in the hrm – commitment relationship |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31031670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00717 |
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