Why Do Adaptable People Feel Less Insecure? Indirect Effects of Career Adaptability on Job and Career Insecurity via Two Types of Perceived Marketability

By Daniel Spurk, Simone Kauffeld, Annika Luisa Meinecke, Katharina Ebner. 2016

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The aim of the present study was to analyze if and how career adaptability reduces different types of insecurity. More specifically, we argue in a theoretical model at the intersection of career and organizational research that perceived internal and external marketability serve as connecting variables in the link between career adaptability and job and career insecurity. We tested our assumptions by means of multiple indirect effects path analyses across two measurement points (6-month time span) with data from 142 university researchers working in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) fields. The results showed that career adaptability was positively related to perceived internal and external marketability, which both subsequently were negatively associated with job and career insecurity. We draw theoretical implications for career research in intra- and extraorganizational settings and discuss practical implications for fostering secure employment.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Pandemics: Implications for research and practice in industrial and organizational psychology (2020, background): “…performance (Lee Huang, & Ashford, 2018), job insecurity might lead to an active career engagement, whereby employees start to explore career alternatives, activate their professional and private networks, or consider re-training in an attempt to increase their marketability (Spurk et al., 2015).”
#Trending topics in careers: a review and future research agenda (2017, background): “…central to contemporary career development, including topics such as career adaptability (e.g. Buyukgoze-Kavas, 2016; Cheung and Jin, 2016; Spurk et al., 2016), career competencies (e.g. Akkermans, Brenninkmeijer, Huibers and Blonk, 2013; Plomp et al., 2016), and self-efficacy (e.g.…”