Age effects on the employability-career success relationship

By Beatrice van der Heijden, Annet de Lange, Evangelia Demerouti, C. V. D. Heijde. 2009

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This study investigated the similarity of the factor structure for self-reported versus supervisor-rated employability for two age groups of workers, and then validated a career success enhancing model of employability across the two age groups. The results confirmed a two-factor model including self-reported and supervisor-rated employability as underlying factors. Moreover, Multi-Group Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that for the youngsters both self- and supervisor ratings of employability related significantly to objective career success outcomes. However, for the over-forties self-rated employability related positively to promotions throughout the career, while the supervisor ratings related negatively to overall promotions. The findings have important implications for performance appraisal practices aimed at increasing life-long employability and career success.

Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

On the relationships among work characteristics and learning-related behavior: Does age matter? (2009, background): “Earlier research has revealed that supervisors hold negative stereotypes, provide less organizational developmental or training activities to and treat older workers less fairly than middle-aged or younger workers (Simpson, Greller, & Stroh, 2002; Van der Heijden et al., 2009).”
Competency development and career success: The mediating role of employability (2011, background): “However, this correlation is comparable with other studies using perceptual measures of employability and perceived marketability or other indicators of subjective career success (Eby et al., 2003; Van der Heijden et al., 2009).”
Sustainable careers: introductory chapter (2015, background): “…from an expectation of lifelong employment towards a focus on the need to protect their employability (Forrier and Sels, 2003; Fugate et al., 2004; Van der Heijden et al., 2009), it is important to increase our knowledge of those elements that contribute to sustainable careers for all workers,…”