Title: Achieving sustainable employability through the lens of human resource practices, psychological well-being and psychological empowerment

Authors: Mohammad Ibrahim Kamel Sweiss; Omima Abdalla Abass Abdalatif

Addresses: Industrial Management Department, Faculty of Business and Economics, Technical University – Kadoorei, Tulkarem, Palestine ' Department of Human Resources Management, College of Business, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that influence on employee behaviour in achieving employee work engagement and sustainable employability. The research model is tested with 308 responses using structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. Results indicate that altogether human resource compensation, training, growth opportunity, supervisor support, psychological well-being and psychological empowerment explained R² 78.8% variance in work engagement. The effect size analysis (R²) revealed that supervisor support has substantial effect size in measuring employee behaviour towards work engagement. Aside of direct relationship, the moderating role of employee commitment was confirmed between employee work engagement and sustainable employability. Theoretically, this study contributes to human resource literature by examining the role of human resource practices in the context of work engagement and sustainable employability. Practically, this study suggests that policy makers should focus on factors like supervisor support, psychological empowerment and work engagement in order to increase sustainable employability.

Keywords: human resource practices; psychological well-being; psychological empowerment; sustainable employability; structural equation modelling; SEM; work engagement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2025.146976

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2025 Vol.36 No.3, pp.379 - 401

Received: 15 Nov 2020
Accepted: 28 Aug 2021
Published online: 10 Jul 2025 *

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