TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between positive and negative home-to-work spillover, i.e., home-to-work facilitation (HWF) and home-to-work conflict (HWC) with employability. Moreover, this study also examined whether the relationship between home-to-work spillover and employability varied between academic and support staff employees.Design/methodology/approach An on-line self-report questionnaire was distributed among academic (n=139) and support staff employees (n=215) working at a Dutch university for distance-learning education. Thoroughly validated measures of home-to-work spillover and employability were used. The employability measure consisted of five dimensions: occupational expertise, anticipation and optimization, personal flexibility, corporate sense, and balance. Hypotheses were tested using hierarchical multivariate regression analyses including interaction effects.Findings HWF was positively related to anticipation and optimization only, while HWC appeared to be negatively associated with all employability dimensions. As expected, the relationships between HWF and HWC on the one hand and the specific employability dimensions on the other hand were stronger for support staff employees than for academic staff employees.Originality/value This study has extended research on employability, by focusing on the home context of employees as a possible antecedent. So far, studies have largely ignored the home context of employees, when investigating employability outcomes. Another contribution was the focus on both positive (facilitation) and negative (conflict) spillover from home-to-work, whereas previous studies mainly focused on one type of spillover only. Finally, the authors had the unique opportunity to compare support staff and academic staff employees in one and the same study.
VL  - 31
IS  - 8
SN  - 0268-3946
DO  - 10.1108/JMP-09-2015-0347
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-09-2015-0347
AU  - Veld Monique
AU  - van der Heijden Béatrice I.J.M.
AU  - Semeijn Judith H.
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Home-to-work spillover and employability among university employees
T2  - Journal of Managerial Psychology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1280
EP  - 1296
Y2  - 2024/04/27
ER  -