Abstract
Perceived employability is the workers' perception of comfortably getting a recruitment opportunity. This paper investigates role breadth self-efficacy and organization based self-esteem as important antecedents of individuals' perceived employability and tests its subsequent relationship with their career success. We collected primary data from 233 respondents working into banking, insurance, and health industries sectors in southern Punjab Pakistan. The results reveal that individuals' role breadth self-efficacy and organization based self-esteem are positively related to their employability perception which further plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-efficacy and employee career success and self-esteem and employee career success. Important theoretical and
Highlights
Career success is taken in terms of gender-oriented role or socio-economic perspectives, individuals have their own meanings of career success on the basis of their experience (Hennequin, 2007)
Perceived employability is positively associated with career success (r = .52, p = .01)
21 to .53, Table 2; role breadth self-efficacy .21 to .45, Table 3). These results provide an evidence that perceived employability is a significant mediator in the relationships between (i) organization based self-esteem and career success and (ii) role breadth self-efficacy and career success
Summary
Career success is taken in terms of gender-oriented role or socio-economic perspectives, individuals have their own meanings of career success on the basis of their experience (Hennequin, 2007). Researchers have observed the job recruitment environment in the context of employment (e.g. boundary-less career; (Arthur, 1994). In the external labor market, finding a job that is similar to the one presently held or a new occupation is relevant to the perceived employability which states to an individual’s subjective assessment (Wittekind, Raeder, & Grote, 2010) always considerable for researchers in Asian as well as European countries (Berntson & Marklund, 2007; Coetzee & Harry, 2014). This study observes the experiences of perceived employability of an employee of an organization depend on self-concept theory. Perceived employability includes such factors like state constructs or unsatisfied performances (Boeriu, Bravo, Gosselink, & van Dam, 2004). Perception of an employee as well as motivation towards its work core ideas of self-concept (Kim, Kim, & Lee, 2015), is a cognitive ability of the person, which monitor employee interest towards its work (Walumbwa et al, 2011)
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