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Sait Gürbüz1,2, Arnold B Bakker3,4, Evangelia Demerouti4,5
1Tranzo, Scientific Center for Care and Wellbeing, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Frontiers in Psychology
|July 3, 2023
Summary
Sustainable employability (SE) enables workers to achieve goals, positively impacting task performance over time. Work engagement acts as a key psychological mechanism linking SE to both task performance and job satisfaction.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Work and Organizational Psychology
Background:
- Sustainable Employability (SE) is a growing concept focused on enabling workers to achieve valuable work goals.
- Previous research suggests a positive association between SE and work outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are underexplored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the longitudinal relationship between SE and work outcomes.
- To examine the mediating role of work engagement in the SE-work outcome linkage.
Main Methods:
- A three-wave longitudinal study was conducted with a representative sample of 287 Dutch workers.
- Data were collected with approximately a 2-month time lag between waves.
- Bootstrap-based path modeling was used to test the proposed mediation model.
Main Results:
- SE significantly predicted task performance over time.
- Work engagement was found to mediate the relationship between SE and both task performance and job satisfaction.
- SE did not directly predict job satisfaction over time.
Conclusions:
- Organizations can enhance task performance and job satisfaction by fostering SE.
- Creating a work context that enables workers to achieve their goals is crucial.
- Work engagement is a significant psychological pathway through which SE influences work outcomes.
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