Abstract
This article explores the relationship between dispositional employability and online training purchase. Through a sample of 883 employees working for enterprises in Spain, and a using principal component analysis and binomial logit probabilistic models, the research revealed two main results. First, it was found that dispositional employability is characterized by five factors: “openness to changes at work,” “career motivation and work resilience,” “work and career proactivity,” “optimism and engagement at work,” and “work identity.” Second, the research also found a double causality in the relationship analysis between dispositional employability and online training purchase. However, this causality is not direct. In explaining dispositional employability, certain motivations and types of behavior of employees participating in online training are significant. In particular, greater sensitivity toward career-related personal empowerment, a greater predisposition toward developing new experiences at work, and a greater awareness of the fact that positive job outcomes are related to preparation conscientiousness. In explaining online training purchase, employees who are more motivated and who better identify with their jobs are more likely to pay. Moreover, employees who spend more time on training and have less contact with new trends in their jobs, find it hard to keep calm in difficult situations, and have a greater predisposition toward effort, and preference for novelty, variety and challenges at work are more likely to purchase online training.
Highlights
In recent years, employability has become a growing field of economic, psychological, and social research (Thijssen et al, 2008; Smith, 2010; Hogan et al, 2013)
Beyond the traditional relationship between cognitive ability and educational attainment, new research highlights the importance of personality characteristics and individuals’ behavior as predictors of academic performance (Ng and Feldman, 2010; von Stumm et al, 2011) and job outcomes (Roberts et al, 2007)
Employees participating in online training programs who are more sensitive to career-related personal empowerment, more predisposed to developing new experiences at work, and more aware of the fact that positive job outcomes are related to preparation conscientiousness are more likely to have greater dispositional employability
Summary
Employability has become a growing field of economic, psychological, and social research (Thijssen et al, 2008; Smith, 2010; Hogan et al, 2013). It is acknowledged that employability is the ability to get and keep a job in a formal organization (Baruch, 2001; Harvey, 2001). The literature on employability emphasizes the important role of individual characteristics in adaptation at work. The premise is that employability is a synergistic collection of individual characteristics driven and directed by an individual’s adaptability, career identity, and human and social capital (McArdle et al, 2007). Employability can be considered a psychosocial construct that enables career success (Fugate et al, 2004)
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