Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force.

I-deals employability human resource management integrative employment relationship sustainable career perspective

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 02 09 2021
accepted: 20 10 2021
entrez: 9 12 2021
pubmed: 10 12 2021
medline: 10 12 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We describe how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals), in this case I-deals focused on workers' employability enhancement, can serve as a powerful strategic HR tool for simultaneously meeting both the strategic goals of employers and the career goals of employees. Building on a sustainable career perspective, I-deals are interpreted as highly valuable, as they can help individual employees to more easily adapt to the fast-changing environments that nowadays characterize society and the labor market. After theoretical outlines on the concepts of I-deals and employability, we argue that I-deals can form the basis for integrative employment relationships aimed at employability enhancement. This article concludes with concrete recommendations for practice, indicating that in order to enable the sound use of I-deals as a strategic HR tool, organizations should discuss I-deals and employability openly through constructive dialogue. Moreover, examples for achieving this through specific practices, such as working with employability coaches and world cafés on employability, are described.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34880816
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769867
pmc: PMC8645842
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Pagination

769867

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Van der Heijden, Nauta, Fugate, De Vos and Bozionelos.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Beatrice Van der Heijden (B)

Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, Netherlands.
Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
Kingston Business School, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom.

Aukje Nauta (A)

Department of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.

Mel Fugate (M)

Department of Management and Information Systems, College of Business at Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States.

Ans De Vos (A)

Next Generation Work expertise centre, Antwerp Management School, Antwerp, Belgium.
Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

Nikos Bozionelos (N)

EMLyon Business School, Écully, France.

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