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Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications

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In this article, the authors argue that employability represents a form of work specific adaptive adaptability that consists of three dimensions: career identity, personal adaptability, and social and human capital.
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This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 2004-08-01. It has received 1687 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Employability.

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Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions

TL;DR: A review of the literature on identification in organizations can be found in this article, where the authors outline a continuum from narrow to broad formulations and differentiates situated identification from deep identification and organizational identification from organizational commitment.

Motivatiom and work behaviour

TL;DR: A review of the influence of group goals on group performance can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the role of cross-cognitive and affective factors in work motivation.
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A competence‐based and multidimensional operationalization and measurement of employability

TL;DR: In this article, a competence-based approach to employability derived from an expansion of the resource-based view of the firm is proposed, in which occupational expertise is complemented with generic competences.
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Change driven by nature: A meta-analytic review of the proactive personality literature

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive review of literature examining proactive personality and find that proactive personality relates to variables consistent with contest mobility and sponsored mobility, but is unrelated to social desirability.
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Self-perceived employability: development and validation of a scale

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the development of a self-report measure of individuals' perceived employability, and examine its construct validity and correlates, based on the analysis of relevant literature.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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Social learning theory

TL;DR: In this article, an exploración de the avances contemporaneos en la teoria del aprendizaje social, con especial enfasis en los importantes roles que cumplen los procesos cognitivos, indirectos, and autoregulatorios.
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of investment in education and training on earnings and employment are discussed. But the authors focus on the relationship between age and earnings and do not explore the relation between education and fertility.
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Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology

TL;DR: Social capital has a definite place in sociological theory as mentioned in this paper, and its role in social control, in family support, and in benefits mediated by extra-familial networks, but excessive extensions of the concept may lead to excessive emphasis on positive consequences of sociability.
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