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Competency development and career success: The mediating role of employability

Ans De Vos, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2011 - 
- Vol. 79, Iss: 2, pp 438-447
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In this article, a survey was conducted among a sample of 561 employees of a large financial services organization and the results support the idea that employee participation in competency development initiatives as well as perceived support for competence development is positively associated with workers' perceptions of employability.
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This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 399 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Career development & Career management.

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- 01 Jan 2017 - 
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- 21 Aug 2014 - 
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Careers as repositories of knowledge: a new perspective on boundaryless careers

Allan Bird
- 01 Jul 1994 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that a knowledge perspective provides significant insight into the implications of such careers for individuals and organizations.
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Employability enhancement through formal and informal learning: an empirical study among Dutch non-academic university staff members

Beatrice van der Heijden, +3 more
- 01 Mar 2009 - 
Abstract: Although learning is generally perceived as a way to improve employees' current job performance, so far, no research has been conducted to explore the possible relationships between formal and informal learning, on the one hand, and employability, on the other. Though contemporary views stress the importance of the job as a powerful learning site, considerable research evidence underpinning these views is lacking. This paper goes into the impact of formal and informal learning upon employability. The influence of employee characteristics and organizational factors is also taken into account. An e-questionnaire was used to collect data among 215 Dutch non-academic university staff members. Our findings emphasize the necessity of Human Resource Development strategies that encompass a mix of formal and informal learning opportunities. In particular, participation in networks appears to be an important predictor for employability. With the outcomes of this study, we aim to contribute to the further development of theoretical insights regarding employability enhancement through learning possibilities embedded in the workplace. It seems that strategies that focus exclusively on enhancing informal on-the-job learning should not be encouraged. Our study is limited to one context and further research is required to investigate the generalizability of the findings to other occupations and/or countries.
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Proactive career behaviours and career success during the early career

Ans De Vos, +2 more
- 01 Sep 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal model of the process of proactive career behaviours and career success with two samples of graduates making the transition from college to work was tested using structural equation modeling.
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The professional career on the right track: A study on the interaction between career self-management and organizational career management in explaining employee outcomes

Ans De Vos, +2 more
- 25 Feb 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between organizational career management and career self-management and addressed the impact on employee outcomes, finding that individuals who take more initiatives to manage their career expect more career support from their employer.
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Boundaryless careers, social capital, and knowledge management: Implications for organizational performance

Mila Lazarova, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the positive and negative effects of boundaryless careers on social capital formation by proposing a more nuanced picture of boundary-less careers is proposed. But the model does not consider the type of knowledge pursued by the firm as a key moderator for the relationships.
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Frequently Asked Questions (9)
Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?

The present study aims to unravel the relationship between competency development, employability and career success. 

This is something that should be addressed in future research. Third, an interesting avenue for future ( longitudinal ) research would be to include objective indicators of employability and career success as well, in order to compare the predictive validity of competency development in the light of objective outcomes and perceptual measures. Moreover, future research using a crosslevel design in which objective measures of organizational competency development are related to employability and career success could add to their understanding. Given the relationship between objective and subjective career success found in many studies, it would further add to their insight into the role of competency development and employability of individuals across time and across organizations. 

The full mediation effect of self-perceived employability in the relationship betweenemployee participation in competency development initiatives and career success indicates that developing expertise and flexibility (being the two indicators of employability as conceptualized in this study) by actively engaging in competency development is an important mechanism through which individuals can attain career success. 

Because career satisfaction was a unidimensional construct, the authors followed the procedure recommended by Little et al. (2002) to create two parcels of randomly selected items to serve as indicators for these variables. 

More specifically, a full mediation effect of self-perceived employability was found for the relationship between employee participation in competency development initiatives and career success, while a partial mediation effect was found for the relationship between perceived support for competency development and career success. 

the direct relationship between organizational support for development and career success outcomes included in their study implies that by actively working on the sustainable development of their employees, organizations not only serve themselves but also express a form of caring for their employees’ careers. 

to assess whether an even more parsimonious model would fit their dataequally well, the authors dropped the paths from the independent variables to self-perceived employability. 

In the present study, the authors hypothesize that self-perceived employability will mediate the relationship between competency development and career success. 

The finding that organizational support for competency development relates to subjective career success outcomes partly via self-perceived employability (a human capital element) supports the idea that it is important to incorporate both a contest-mobility and a sponsored-mobility approach when studying the antecedents of career success (Ng et al., 2005).