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Review
. 2021 Nov 22:12:769867.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769867. eCollection 2021.

Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force

Beatrice Van der Heijden  1   2   3   4   5 , Aukje Nauta  6 , Mel Fugate  7 , Ans De Vos  8   9 , Nikos Bozionelos  10
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Ticket to Ride: I-deals as a Strategic HR Tool for an Employable Work Force

Beatrice Van der Heijden et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

We describe how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals), in this case I-deals focused on workers' employability enhancement, can serve as a powerful strategic HR tool for simultaneously meeting both the strategic goals of employers and the career goals of employees. Building on a sustainable career perspective, I-deals are interpreted as highly valuable, as they can help individual employees to more easily adapt to the fast-changing environments that nowadays characterize society and the labor market. After theoretical outlines on the concepts of I-deals and employability, we argue that I-deals can form the basis for integrative employment relationships aimed at employability enhancement. This article concludes with concrete recommendations for practice, indicating that in order to enable the sound use of I-deals as a strategic HR tool, organizations should discuss I-deals and employability openly through constructive dialogue. Moreover, examples for achieving this through specific practices, such as working with employability coaches and world cafés on employability, are described.

Keywords: I-deals; employability; human resource management; integrative employment relationship; sustainable career perspective.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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