Employability in the context of career change: Utilizing social cognitive career theory

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As organizations transform, they adapt to unstable, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous conditions. This study intends to explore the influence of self-efficacy and work values in determining employability using the choice model of the social cognitive career theory. The purpose of this paper is to investigate affective commitment as an outcome variable in relation to self-efficacy and intrinsic and extrinsic value support mediated by perceived internal and external employability. This paper uses data from 286 employees; the hypotheses were evaluated using partial least squares structural equations modeling. The results of this study support the employability paradox that states that perceived internal employability mediates a positive effect between self-efficacy and affective commitment, while perceived external employability has a negative effect on affective commitment. This study provides further evidence in the literature on employability that self-efficacy and perceived external employability have a significant role in the context of a career change. Intrinsic values support has a detrimental influence on perceived external employability. Extrinsic work values positively affect perceived internal and external employability, while intrinsic work values negatively affect perceived external employability.

Acknowledgment
This study was funded by MBKM Project, Education and Higher Education Ministry, Indonesia. The Human Resources Management and Behavioural Research Group Faculty of Economy, Universitas Negeri Padang, also supported it.

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    • Figure 1. Conceptual model
    • Table 1. Proportion of scores of perceived employability and affective commitment by type of support and self-efficacy
    • Table 2. Correlations, means, and standard deviation
    • Table 3. Direct effects of self-efficacy, intrinsic and extrinsic value support on perceived employability and affective commitment
    • Table 4. Indirect effects of self-efficacy, intrinsic and extrinsic value support, and affective commitment
    • Conceptualization
      Rino, Deva Sabrina, Mely Darni
    • Data curation
      Rino, Deva Sabrina, Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati, Mely Darni
    • Funding acquisition
      Rino
    • Project administration
      Rino, Mely Darni
    • Resources
      Rino, Tri Kurniawati, Mely Darni
    • Supervision
      Rino, Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati
    • Validation
      Rino, Deva Sabrina, Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati
    • Visualization
      Rino
    • Writing – original draft
      Rino, Deva Sabrina, Mely Darni
    • Writing – review & editing
      Rino, Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati, Mely Darni
    • Formal Analysis
      Deva Sabrina, Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati, Mely Darni
    • Methodology
      Deva Sabrina, Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati
    • Software
      Deva Sabrina, Azman Ismail
    • Investigation
      Azman Ismail, Tri Kurniawati