Sustainable employability and work engagement: a three-wave study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The recent concept of sustainable employability (SE), which refers to being able and enabled to achieve valuable work goals, has lately attracted substantial attention in many developed countries. Although limited cross-sectional studies found that SE in the form of capability set was positively associated with work outcomes, why and through which mechanism SE is related to crucial work outcomes remains still unexplored. Therefore, the present three-wave study aimed to (1) investigate the SE-work outcomes linkage over time, and (2) uncover the psychological pathway between SE and two work outcomes (i.e., task performance and job satisfaction) by proposing work engagement as a mediator.

Methods

To test the mediation process, we approached CentERdata to collect da

SUBMITTER: Gurbuz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10313196 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature