Chapter 39. the trouble with employability
What have companies come up with to replace the old career ladder? Not much. Much beloved of human resources professionals, the concept of employability is meant to provide the basis for a new psychological contract between workers and employers. With companies no longer able to guarantee long-term job security for employees, employability represents a shift to a new deal whereby employers offer shorter job tenure with an undertaking to provide skills development and training which will make staff more employable later.
Employability grew out of the delayering and downsizing exercises that occurred at the end of the 1980s and in the early 1990s. The bond of trust between employee and employer was irredeemably ...
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