Organizational flexibilization and individual employability: proposal of an explaning model

Abstract

The article explores the thematic of the individual employability in the current context of organizational flexibility, aiming to extend the current quarrel on the subject, centered in the theory of the human capital. Such extent becomes necessary in function of the multicausality of the phenomenon in question. This article suggests an explaning model of the individual employability, based upon a deep bibliographical revision, with the intention of searching a better agreement on what it determines the access to the job. The model is conceived on the basis of the theories of human, cultural and social capitals. Suggestions for the operacionalization of the variables are presented, making the model applicable. The proposal of the model does not put an end to the studies on the subject. This article is about an effort to better know the general lines of the phenomenon. The theoretical quarrel allowed to see that the job market must be studied as something inserted in a social context, in which non-meritocratics variables are valued. Such conclusion can redirect the public policies directed to the job market, as well as the policies of human resources adopted by the organizations.