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La Empleabilidad Y La Iniciativa Personal Como Antecedentes De La Satisfaccion Laboral

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  • Francisco Javier Gracia Lerin

    (Universitat de València)

  • Juan Pablo Gamboa

    (Universitat de València)

  • Pilar Ripoll Botella

    (Universitat de València)

  • José María Peiró Silla

    (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas)

Abstract

Transformations in the socio-economic environment of the companies lead them to more flexible employment policies and other changes in their human resources management practices. In this context it is important to clarify the role of several environmental and personal variables that can contribute to obtain jobs producing adequate levels of job satisfaction. The aim of the present study is to analyze the direct effects of employability and personal initiative on job satisfaction. It also intends to clarify whether their effects are cumulative and/or interactive on intrinsic, extrinsic and social job satisfaction. The study has been carried out in a sample of 1319 young Spanish workers. Results show that employability and personal initiative significantly predict in a cumulative way intrinsic, extrinsic and social job satisfaction. Moreover, the interaction of employability and personal initiative increase the direct effects of these two variables on intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. Thus, higher values of employability when personal initiative is also high are associated to the highest levels of intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. These results have clear implications for theory and practice in a context in which job flexibility is inducing new employment relations between employers and employees. This situation requires from the workers new career management strategies. Las transformaciones en el entorno socio-económico de las empresas llevan a éstas a adoptar políticas de flexibilidad laboral y otros cambios en sus prácticas de recursos humanos. En este contexto, es importante clarificar el papel de diferentes variables ambientales y personales que permitan lograr trabajos con niveles adecuados de satisfacción laboral. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar el papel directo de la empleabilidad y la iniciativa personal sobre la satisfacción laboral, clarificando si sus efectos son acumulativos e interactivos. Además, se analiza de forma separada la satisfacción laboral intrínseca, extrínseca y social. El estudio se ha realizado con una muestra de 1319 trabajadores españoles jóvenes. Los resultados muestran que la empleabilidad y la iniciativa personal contribuyen de forma acumulativa a predecir la satisfacción laboral extrínseca, intrínseca y social. Por otra parte, la interacción de empleabilidad e iniciativa incrementa la predicción de la satisfacción extrínseca e intrínseca de tal modo que valores elevados en ambas variables se asocian con niveles más altos de satisfacción intrínseca y extrínseca. Estos resultados tienen claras implicaciones teóricas y prácticas en un contexto en el que la flexibilidad laboral plantea unas nuevas relaciones empleador-empleado y requiere nuevas estrategias de gestión de la carrera por parte del trabajador.

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  • Francisco Javier Gracia Lerin & Juan Pablo Gamboa & Pilar Ripoll Botella & José María Peiró Silla, 2007. "La Empleabilidad Y La Iniciativa Personal Como Antecedentes De La Satisfaccion Laboral," Working Papers. Serie EC 2007-01, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:2007-01
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    1. Martín Martín-González & Daniel Ondé Pérez & Carmen Perez-Esparrells, 2015. "El impacto de las competencias en la empleabilidad de los titulados universitarios de las universidades valencianas," Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 10, in: Marta Rahona López & Jennifer Graves (ed.), Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 10, edition 1, volume 10, chapter 35, pages 687-708, Asociación de Economía de la Educación.

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