How supervisor’s life-span related HRM practices drive flow and employability of teachers: the moderating role of leader-member exchange

Abstract

Many public organizations are challenged by demographic changes that require attention in order to safeguard all workers’ sustainable employability. This study aims to increase our understanding of how SLS-HRM practices (i.e. measures that a supervisor takes to foster an employee’s career sustainability) are linked to teachers’ employability via work-related flow, and to examine whether LMX quality moderates this relationship. SEM analyses among 698 teachers in 51 educational institutions across the Netherlands reveal that SLS-HRM practices are positively related to several dimensions of employability, through work-related flow, and that LMX quality determines the effectiveness of these practices.