Decent work in Switzerland: Context, conceptualization, and assessment

Masdonati, Jonas; Schreiber, Marc; Marcionetti, Jenny; Rossier, Jérôme

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2018.11.004

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“…Journal of Career Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072720922959 Ambiel, 2019), Italy (Di Fabio & Kenny, 2019), France (Vignoli et al, 2019), Portugal (Ferreira et al, 2019), South Korea (Nam & Kim, 2019), Switzerland (Masdonati, Schreiber, Marcionetti, & Rossier, 2019), Turkey (Buyukgoze-Kavas & , and the UK (Dodd, Hooley, & Burke, 2019). With some modifications to suit the respective cultural contexts, the proposed five dimensions of decent work were consistently evident in the international studies.…”

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Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults

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Hoare

Perera

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Journal of Career Assessment

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The present research is focused on the measurement properties of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) in Australia and adds to the cumulative evidence of the measure’s international utility for psychological research into the role of work in people’s lives. The study contributes new evidence via a survey of a sample of workers ( N = 201) who completed the DWS and criterion measures of career-related factors including job satisfaction, work engagement, and withdrawal intentions. Correlated factors, higher order, and bifactor models were tested using confirmatory factor analysis. All models were satisfactory and the bifactor model evinced preferable fit. The DWS Values Congruence subscale predicted all criterion measures. Workers’ incomes and ratings of their occupations’ prestige had no main effects or interaction effect on the DWS subscales. Recommendations for future research include testing the DWS’s relations with measures of mental health which are known correlates of career-related outcomes.

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Section: Measurement Properties Of the Dws In Different Nationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults

McIlveen

Hoare

Perera

et al. 2020

Journal of Career Assessment

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“…Specifically, we examined the antecedents of decent work of the PWT and linked them to career exploration behavior. Previous studies of the PWT model were performed mainly in Western cultures [19,20] and few of them focused on the Chinese context [9]. Our work enriches the applicable case of the PWT model.…”

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“…Decent work plays a central role in the model, and it has five components: safe working conditions, access to health care, sufficient compensation, free time and rest during the work week, and values match between working place and family [8]. Previous studies have tested the model in various countries, such as Brazil [17], South Korea [18], Switzerland [19], UK [20], Italy [21], Turkey [22], Portugal [23], and China [9], and in various sorts of respondents, such as low-income employees [24], people who suffer from Chiari malformation [25], racially and ethnically diverse employees [10], and emerging adults [11].…”

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Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Decent Work Perception with Chinese Nursing College Students

Yin

You

Yuanxiong

2019

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Drawing on the psychology of working theory (PWT), the present study was performed to evaluate the predictor session of the PWT and career exploration behavior with a sample of Chinese nursing college students from diverse backgrounds. The research employed a cross-sectional research design and 854 nursing students were recruited from one health vocational college situated in Northwest China. Structural equation modeling was utilized to conduct the analysis; confirmatory factor analysis and structural model testing were performed accordingly. Moreover, mediation analysis that used bias-corrected percentile bootstrapping method and moderation analysis were carried out in accordance. Overall, most of the proposed direct paths were significant, but the mediation results were mixed. Proactive personality simply moderated the impact of economic constraints on career adaptability. The results suggest that PWT is applicable to nursing college students and the model is generally supported in the Chinese context. It is the first empirical work that used this model among nursing college students and future decent work perceptions contributed another important antecedent of career exploration behavior. The practical implications based on these findings are provided as well.

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“…Work volition is highly related to basic individual resources such as psychological capital [53] and has a direct influence on a variety of career outcomes [54,55]. Work volition also showed positive correlations with positive affect [56], life satisfaction [21], academic satisfaction in university students [19], and job satisfaction in workers [57].…”

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Work Volition and Career Adaptability as Predictors of Employability: Examining a Moderated Mediating Process

Kwon

2019

Sustainability

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Slow economic growth and cost reduction have caused a global increase in employment insecurity. For university students in the process of preparing for employment, these conditions can be a source of enormous stress. The effort to improve the employability of university students who experience difficulties in seeking a job and developing a career, therefore, becomes consequently meritorious. In order to provide new findings of the key antecedents affecting employability, this study investigates the dynamics of work volition and career adaptability. Employability is predicted by integrating career adaptability, which originated in career construction theory, and work volition, which originated in the psychology of working framework. To test the research hypotheses, survey data were collected from 251 students registered at three universities in South Korea and analyzed using a structural equation model and Hayes' process macro. Results indicated that the direct effect of work volition on employability and its indirect effect through career adaptability were significant. Next, the mediation effect of career adaptability between work volition and employability was varied positively by work volition. These results provide practical implications for efforts aimed at increasing the employability of university students and, as such, present a foundation for contribution to ensuring sustainable employability.Sustainability 2019, 11, 7089 2 of 16 for individuals as well [7]. Such changes in the corporate environment demand a more flexible labor market, which in turn necessitates individuals transform their perception of what a career is. Recently, rather than focusing on planning and rationality, emphasis has been placed on competence in developing flexible adaptations for enduring uncertainty and ambiguity. The traditional concept of employment, considered important in past industrial societies, is being replaced by the concept of sustainable employability [8,9].Today, career success focuses more on employability in the labor market and the psychological satisfaction felt in one's career, rather than higher wages or faster promotions in an organization or occupation [10]. In academic research (e.g., [9,11,12]), sustainable employability refers to one's capacity to maintain a lifelong stable state of employment preparedness. The concept of employability refers to the capability of an employee, not employer, and it can be understood as describing those characteristics or competences of an individual that makes employment feasible [13]. In other words, employability is the ability to exploit one's own potential to maintain sustainable employment security [14], and it refers to long-term career success [15].Although the employability of university students has become imperative, universities do not provide adequate programs enhance employability. To address this apparent oversight, this research aims to investigate work volition and career adaptability as antecedents for strengthening the employability of university students...

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Decent work in Switzerland: Context, conceptualization, and assessment

Abstract: AcknowledgmentsWe acknowledge the input of the following colleagues who collaborated on the French and Italian translation process of the DWS: Geneviève Fournier and the researchers of the Centre de recherche et d'intervention sur l'éducation et la vie au travail (CRIEVAT),

Cited by 104 publications

References 29 publications

Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults

Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults

Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Decent Work Perception with Chinese Nursing College Students

Work Volition and Career Adaptability as Predictors of Employability: Examining a Moderated Mediating Process

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