Soldiers’ employment attitude and employability: An exploratory study
Abstract: Nowadays it is very
difficult for Chinese retired soldiers to find proper jobs, and the primary
reason is the significant gap between job requirements and soldiers owned job
skills. Therefore, it is very important to improve the soldiers’ job skills and
enhance their understanding of employment.
Design/methodology/approach: This paper expands the study scope from the
soldiers’ job skills to the employability, initiatively introduces the
employment attitude which has obvious impact on the employment of soldiers, and
analyses the influence that employment attitude can play on employability. At
last, this paper develops statistical method to find the relationship between
soldiers’ employment attitude and employability.
Findings: The empirical analysis shows that soldiers’ employment attitude
has the positive linkage with employability, which makes the employment
attitude a measurable variable for the employability rather than an absolute
standard.
Research limitations/implications: According to the research purpose,
more variables should be considered in the model, consequently, there are only
three indicators to describe solders’ employment attitude and four indicators
to describe solders’ employability.
Originality/value: This paper takes research on soldiers’ employability
in a new perspective. The soldiers’ employment attitude is served as the entry
point, showing the influence that soldiers’ employment attitude has on
employability.
Keywords: retired soldiers,
independent choosing profession, job skills training, employment attitude,
employability
Author: Peng Gao, Lunqu Yuan
Journal Code: jptindustrigg150080