Employability and job security, friends or foes? The paradoxical reception of employacurity in the Netherlands
Abstract. The idea that investing in employability is the answer to creative destruction caused insecurity originated in the context of Silicon Valley. Paradoxically, this ‘employacurity’ discourse has taken root in the Netherlands, a country in which the employment system is firmly based on the norm of job security, the total opposite of Silicon Valley’s employment system. Although management gurus have built an attractive discourse on employability, an associated collective action problem detracts from its realism. The Dutch case exhibits mechanisms that may alleviate such a collective actio... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
Schlagwörter: | collective bargaining / employability / employacurity / employers / flexibility / flexicurity / human resources / industrial relations / management gurus / social policy |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27217252 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/18159 |