Toward a Mediation Model of Employability Enhancement: A Study of Employee‐Supervisor Pairs in the Building Sector |
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| Authors: | Beatrice I J M van der Heijden Arnold B Bakker |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Open University of the Netherlands, and University of Twente, the Netherlands;2. Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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