The Meaning of Employability in the new Labour Relationships Between Company-employee: A Model of Training in Companies

AbstractAt present, few companies are able to guarantee the long-term or medium-term employment of their workers. The end of the no respond traditional loyalty-permanence exchange gives rise to other aspects, which largely determine the relationship between the organization and the employee. In this ‘labour scenario’, with its characteristic job instability, the improvement of employability takes on specific meaning: a strategy to give active workers skills to improve their working ability, better adaptation to change or easy re-incorporation to the labour market in different periods of their working life. This paper aims to focus on the main role of the companies and all the labour organizations in the productive system in the promotion of employability, and the responsibility they should assume as part of their social commitment for the welfare of their workers. With this purpose, career development is presented as one of the main strategies to be adopted by companies to improve employability and, thus, generate job security as well as responsible competitiveness and sustainability for the companies themselves. From a pedagogical perspective, this new approach about the professional development deserves a reflection on the internal training within companies guided the improvement of employability as guarantee of their permanency in labour market