Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Management and Economics, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing 100081, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 15;18(24):13230. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413230.
To solve the labour shortage, we clarify the definition and dimensions of sustainable employability, and make it possible to develop sustainable employability scales in the future and lay the foundation for subsequent quantitative research. Finally, people's sustainable employability can be improved. Highly sustainable employability employees can continue to work in the labour market and their working lives can be prolonged. Labour market supply will increase and labour shortage will be partly solved.
We discuss the concept of sustainable employability based on some previous studies. Our conclusion is that the existing definitions and measurement dimensions are problematic. The swAge-model, a tool that helps us understand how to make working life more sustainable and healthier for all ages, can be the basis of sustainable employability.
We develop a discussion paper concerning the definition and measurement dimensions of sustainable employability using the swAge-model with an added factor of intrinsic work value and the dynamic chain.
Our definition of sustainable employability takes environmental factors into consideration and makes it clear that it is not a solely personal characteristic, but the result of an interaction between individuals and the environment, thus distinguishing employability from work ability. We use the swAge-model as a basis to make the composition of our definition more logical and informed. Our measurement dimensions are clearly described to facilitate the future development of a scale, and our concept may ultimately help to extend the working lives of older and retired workers and thus solve the future labour shortage problem.
为了解决劳动力短缺问题，我们明确了可持续就业能力的定义和维度，并为未来开发可持续就业能力量表奠定了基础，为后续的定量研究铺平了道路。最终，人们的可持续就业能力将得到提高。高度可持续就业能力的员工能够继续在劳动力市场中工作，他们的工作寿命得以延长。劳动力市场的供应将会增加，劳动力短缺的问题将在一定程度上得到解决。
我们基于一些先前的研究，讨论了可持续就业能力的概念。我们的结论是，现有的定义和测量维度存在问题。swAge 模型是一种帮助我们理解如何使所有年龄段的工作生活更可持续和更健康的工具，可以作为可持续就业能力的基础。
我们使用 swAge 模型开发了一份关于可持续就业能力的定义和测量维度的讨论文件，该模型增加了内在工作价值和动态链这一因素。
我们对可持续就业能力的定义考虑了环境因素，并明确指出它不仅仅是个人特征，而是个人与环境相互作用的结果，从而将就业能力与工作能力区分开来。我们使用 swAge 模型作为基础，使我们的定义更具逻辑性和信息性。我们明确描述了测量维度，以便于未来开发量表，并最终帮助延长老年和退休工人的工作寿命，从而解决未来的劳动力短缺问题。
