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- Title
Unshrouding the Sphere from the Clouds: Towards a Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Employability.
- Authors
Fleuren, Bram P. I.; de Grip, Andries; Jansen, Nicole W. H.; Kant, IJmert; Zijlstra, Fred R. H.
- Abstract
Sustainable employability refers to individuals' long-term abilities to work and remain employed. Despite its societal importance in the light of aging populations and rapidly changing skill demands, sustainable employability still requires further definition and conceptualization. As such, the present paper aims to define and conceptualize sustainable employability comprehensively by reviewing existing studies on the concept. Additionally, the paper discusses and integrates sustainable employment, sustainable work, and sustainable work ability into our broad framework of sustainable employability. The resulting conceptual framework positions sustainable employability as an inherently longitudinal multidimensional individual characteristic that is the outcome of complex interactions between individual-, work- and work environmental characteristics. This framework enables researchers to identify the employment characteristics that promote sustainable employability and thereby comprise sustainable employment. Finally, the framework links to notions of person-environment fit, and job- and organizational design to create a basis for future research on sustainable employability.
- Subjects
EMPLOYABILITY; PERSON-environment fit; JOB descriptions; SPHERES; POPULATION aging
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2020, Vol 12, Issue 16, p6366
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su12166366