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Employability as a compass for career success: development and initial validation of a new multidimensional measure
Author(s) -
Lo Presti Alessandro,
Ingusci Emanuela,
Magrin Maria Elena,
Manuti Amelia,
Scrima Fabrizio
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of training and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1468-2419
pISSN - 1360-3736
DOI - 10.1111/ijtd.12161
Subject(s) - employability , confirmatory factor analysis , measure (data warehouse) , exploratory factor analysis , psychology , vocational education , sample (material) , exploratory research , applied psychology , knowledge management , structural equation modeling , computer science , statistics , psychometrics , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics , data mining , social science , clinical psychology , chemistry , chromatography
This article reports the development and initial validation of a multidimensional measure of employability based on the theoretical model of Lo Presti and Pluviano (2016). Four different studies were designed and implemented. Study 1 was a qualitative study that involved a group of 15 labour market experts and aimed at developing the items pool. In Study 2, an exploratory factor analysis of 526 employees was carried out to examine the structure of the employability measure as previously obtained. Study 3 aimed at verifying the employability measure that had emerged from Study 2 through confirmatory factor analysis of 699 employees, resulting in a 28‐item shortened version encompassing the original four employability dimensions. Finally, in Study 4, concurrent and predictive validity of the definitive version of the employability measure were tested on a sample of 712 employees. Implications for vocational guidance and human resource management, as well as future employability research, are discussed.