The design and uses of an employability index to evaluate the vertical workforce development process

Holland, Brian

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“…PSS can be the innovative model toward building that linkage back that ties labor supply and demand while recognizing the virtues of integrating "vertical" workforce development activities that jobseekers need to undertake to become employable and "horizontal" workforce development coordination among government, employer, and educational stakeholders (Holland, 2018;2019). PSS can provide the organizing link for a new demand side system to emerge from, connect with, adapt to the knowledgeable and creative human agents-e.g., the vulnerable jobseekers and low-skilled workers.…”

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“…Based on a local definition of success in workforce development generated by low-income jobseekers, SS-typically thought of as ESS-was reconceptualized as an empowerment-based and inclusive practice called psychological self-sufficiency (PSS; Hong, 2013;. In this regard, the purpose of this paper was to examine a holistic relationship between the process and outcome elements of SS in the context of a sector-based, demand-driven career pathway model that includes a partnership between post-secondary education and training institutions and health care employers in high growth, high demand areas , 2019. Using data from a health care career pathway program called Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG), it examines the human-centric developmental aspect of SS that has been found to generate program success .…”

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Broken Links in the Workforce Development System: The Social-Human Development Need for Assessing Psychological Self-Sufficiency

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The broken links in the U.S. workforce development system is that it focuses largely on bringing economic actors together to invest in education and training as inputs and to generate job match results as outputs in an employers’ market. Integrating Anthony Giddens’s structuration theory with psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as a bottom-up system recreating process through productive practices of human actors is examined. The purpose of the study was to examine how the change in PSS affects one’s later stage economic self-sufficiency (ESS) outcome in workforce development. The study sample consisted of 350 low-income jobseekers from a U.S. federally funded health care career pathway education and training program called the Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG). A multiple regression analysis found that PSS positively affects ESS while controlling for other sociodemographic variables. These findings guide the policymakers and service providers to invest more resources in building a culture of PSS to relink the workforce development system. We develop a case for assessing PSS to inform humanistic human resource development and management in helping individuals to switch from barriers to hope to achieve career goals in their lives. We propose further agenda for PSS research to be applied in industry-based employee engagement.

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Broken Links in the Workforce Development System: The Social-Human Development Need for Assessing Psychological Self-Sufficiency

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“…First, the EAS-60 could provide a way to build a Knowledge Society, reduce poverty and unemployment, and guide employment and educational policies ( ILO, 2017 ). Second, the introduction of this new measure of employability is necessary because it implies some improvements in the processes of evaluation, guidance, and intervention in job transitions and career development (see, e.g., Holland, 2019 ). The EAS-60 is an adequate instrument to measure employability because it presents validity, reliability, good psychometric proprieties, and criteria for interpreting the scores.…”

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Evaluating employability in contexts of change: validation of a scale

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IntroductionEmployability is a crucial factor in managing to emerge and changing job demands. This study validates an expanded version of the Employability Appraisal Scale: EAS-60, as an instrument to identify and improve competencies for employability.MethodThe EAS-60 was tested in a cross-sectional study in a Spanish population. An exploratory study was carried out using a sample of 188 workers, and the scale’s structure was analyzed and confirmed in two Confirmatory Factor Analyses using a sample of 527 workers. Finally, reliability and validity were evaluated.ResultsExploratory and confirmatory analyses provide evidence supporting the multi-dimensional structure. The scale presents good psychometric properties and criteria for interpreting the scores.DiscussionThe EAS-60 is a reliable and valid instrument. It allows Human Resource Managers to offer career plans at work that include specific actions of job socialization, training, improvement of specific skills, etc. Furthermore, employees can increase their employability and develop their professional careers.

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The design and uses of an employability index to evaluate the vertical workforce development process

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Broken Links in the Workforce Development System: The Social-Human Development Need for Assessing Psychological Self-Sufficiency

Broken Links in the Workforce Development System: The Social-Human Development Need for Assessing Psychological Self-Sufficiency

Evaluating employability in contexts of change: validation of a scale

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