Work in Progress: Toward a Progression Model of Competence-Based Employability

• In Event: 25.025 - Leadership and Scholarship Development Across the Professions

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of inter-organizational careers makes employability a key-concept of human resource management. Past research has found employability to consist out of five competences: occupational expertise, anticipation and optimization, personal flexibility, corporate sense, and balance. However, the relationships between those dimensions received no attention. We performed a Rasch analysis of Van der Heijde and Van der Heijden's (2006) employability scale to investigate the psychometric properties of the scale based on a dataset of 167 Austrian employees. Results show of how the five competences of Van der Heijde and Van der Heijden's (2006) employability scale vary in difficulty: The competences do not stand next to each other in parallel, but rather build on each other.

Authors

• Dominik Emanuel Froehlich, University of Vienna

• Mingyang Liu, University of Toledo

• Beatrice Van der Heijden