%0 Journal Article
%T Employability attributes and personality preferences of postgraduate business management students
%A Ingrid Potgieter
%A Melinde Coetzee
%J South African Journal of Industrial Psychology
%D 2013
%I AOSIS OpenJournals
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ sajip.v39i1.1064
%X Orientation: The demand for sustained employability and a proactive career agency has led to a renewed interest in the dispositional and psychological attributes of students and employees ¨C like their employability attributes and personality preferences ¨C because these relate to the proactive management of their career development in a changing employment world.Research purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between employees¡¯ employability attributes (as the Employability Attributes Scale measures them) and their personality preferences (as the Myers-Briggs Type indicator, Form M, measures them). Motivation for the study: There seems to be a paucity of information about how employees¡¯ personality preferences relate to their employability attributes in South Africa¡¯s multicultural organisational context.Research design, approach and method: The authors conducted a quantitative survey. It involved a non-probability sample of 304 early career adults enrolled for an Honour¡¯s degree in business management in an open distance learning higher education institution. They used correlational statistics and multiple regression analyses to analyse the data.Main findings: The authors observed a number of significant relationships between the participants¡¯ personality preferences and their employability attributes.Practical/managerial implications: Career counsellors and human resource practitioners need to recognise how employees¡¯ personality preferences influence their employability attributes in the management of their career development and employability.Contribution/value add: The findings add to the existing career literature on the career metacompetencies that influence employees¡¯ employability. They also provide valuable information that organisations can use for career development support and counselling practices in the contemporary world of work.
%K Career Meta-Competencies
%K Employability
%K Personality Preferences
%U http://sajip.co.za/index.php/sajip/article/view/1064