Abstract
Previous studies of the relationship between job security and job satisfaction were mostly conducted on research samples in Asia from the perspective of oriental culture; however, under the same cultural background, different social systems might lead to different cognition outcomes. Therefore, this study examines the job security and organizational support of Taiwan and mainland China employees from the perspectives of competence enhancement motivation, and investigates the relationship between employability and job satisfaction. Adopting judgmental sampling, a total of 1307 valid questionnaires were collected from Taiwan and mainland China employees. The path relationship of the two groups was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM) by using analysis of moment structure (AMOS). Results show that job security and organizational support are positive for employability and job satisfaction. Employability has a positive influence on job satisfaction. Additionally, employability has a mediating effect of job security and organizational support on job satisfaction.
Highlights
In recent years, global governments and scholars have been paid great attention to the study of employability, covering the development of students’ cultivation for employment and the enhancement of employees’ ability
Taking the employees in the service industries as the research sample, in this paper, a competence enhancement model was used to examine the relationships among job security, perceived organizational support, perceived employability and job satisfaction, to bridge the theoretical gap of applying
The results of the study show that, for both the Taiwan and mainland China research samples, the perceived organizational support has a positive impact on job security, employability and job satisfaction
Summary
Global governments and scholars have been paid great attention to the study of employability, covering the development of students’ cultivation for employment and the enhancement of employees’ ability. As De Vos, De Hauw and Van der Heijden [1] indicated, employability means the individual’s ability of acquiring knowledge, skills and other characteristics in order to meet the needs of employers and exert professional potential. Some studies have pointed out that related issues of employability can be divided into two categories. The first category is to examine the influence of organizations and individuals on employability from the employee’s perspective. The second category is to examine the influence of universities and individuals on employability from the student’s perspective. As employability policies are almost made specific to the overall labor force rather than to the unemployed and underrepresented groups, related research relates to meeting job security rather than assisting the individual to get a job [3]. One of the issues discussed in this study is job security
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