Book Review: Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education By Robert Coelen and Cate Gribble (Editors). New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. 262 pages, paperback

Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education is a collection of edited chapters, partitioned into modes of non-mobile or mobile international education initiatives, that contribute to the employability of graduates. Cumulatively, the chapters draw on a variety of case studies from different countries, using key stakeholder perspectives, to demonstrate the chiefly positive outcomes of the different modes of international education experiences on students’ employability skills. The book also makes reference to how higher education institutions (HEIs) can enhance practice in particular by supporting students in identifying and understanding their internationalised employability skills, and how employers can harness these

The role of task prosocial job crafting in predicting supervisor ratings of performance

Prosocial job crafting is a specific form of job crafting, focusing on crafting behaviours led by a prosocial intent. Prosocial job crafting is considered to be a subcategory of job crafting, and we identify three dimensions of the concept, namely task, relational, and cognitive prosocial job crafting. In this paper, we describe a study investigating prosocial job crafting in academic libraries. A structural model with the task element of prosocial job crafting was tested on a sample of participants from Hungary. We found that task prosocial job crafting was predicted by prosocial motivation, while it strongly and positively predicted supervisor ratings of individual performance, consistent with theoretical predictions. Opportunities for impact on beneficiaries was found to strengthen the relationship between prosocial motivation and task prosocial job crafting

The role of a new strength-based intervention on organisation-based self-esteem and work engagement: A three-wave intervention study

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between organisation-based self-esteem (OBSE) and work engagement during a new strength-based intervention over nine months. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of 82 workers composed of 70 sales consultants and 12 area-managers working in an Italian pharmaceutical company received a one-day training based on the FAMILY approach, three times for nine months, with a three-month lag between each workshop. Selfreported measures of OBSE and work engagement were collected before and after each workshop. Findings: Results showed that final levels of both OBSE and work engagement were significantly higher compared to baseline. Moreover, results from a multiple mediation analysis showed that the direct and indirect relationships between OBSE and work engagement changed at different time points, which may have been related to the different contents of the workshops. Originality/value: This study provides initial evidence suggesting that organisations could leverage on medium-term interventions to provide employees active guidance on how to use their strengths at work, likely to boost higher employees’ positive perceptions of themselves as organisational members and work engagement