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Toward a Mediation Model of Employability Enhancement: A Study of Employee‐Supervisor Pairs in the Building Sector
Author(s) -
Heijden Beatrice I. J. M.,
Bakker Arnold B.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2011.tb00066.x
Subject(s) - employability , transformational leadership , supervisor , competence (human resources) , psychology , mediation , leadership style , lisrel , work (physics) , constructive , social psychology , structural equation modeling , management , sociology , pedagogy , engineering , computer science , process (computing) , mechanical engineering , machine learning , economics , operating system , social science
This study examines whether jobs that enable competence development and a constructive leadership style enhance workers' employability or career potential through their assumed positive relationship with work‐related flow (absorption, work enjoyment, and intrinsic work motivation). The authors conducted an explorative study with 303 pairs of employees and their direct supervisors working in a Dutch building company. Results indicate that self‐ratings of learning value of the current job and transformational leadership have an indirect relationship with supervisor ratings of employability through work‐related flow.