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Enabling educators to foster creativity and perceived employability: the role of serious leisure

Enabling educators to foster creativity and perceived employability: the role of serious leisure
Enabling educators to foster creativity and perceived employability: the role of serious leisure

Drawing on a framework of conservation of resources theory, this chapter aims to enable educators in the management and organizational studies domain to foster the relationship between serious leisure and perceived employability among marketing management students. The sample was 228 marketing management graduates from four business schools in India who completed an online questionnaire between December 2020 and February 2021. The findings indicate that serious leisure is positively associated with perceived employability and that the relationship is mediated by creativity. Gender moderates the mediating effect of creativity on the relationship between serious leisure and perceived employability such that the indirect effect of serious leisure on perceived employability is stronger for men than women. Practical implications enable educators and career counsellors to improve the perceived employability of their students, leading to benefits at the individual, university, and organizational levels.

235-254
IGI Global
Nimmi, P.M.
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Krishna, Arathi
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Donald, William E.
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Christiansen, Bryan
Even, Angela M.
Nimmi, P.M.
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Krishna, Arathi
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Nimmi, P.M., Krishna, Arathi and Donald, William E. (2023) Enabling educators to foster creativity and perceived employability: the role of serious leisure. In, Christiansen, Bryan and Even, Angela M. (eds.) Examining Applied Multicultural Industrial and Organizational Psychology. IGI Global, pp. 235-254. (doi:10.4018/978-1-6684-7212-5.ch012).

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Drawing on a framework of conservation of resources theory, this chapter aims to enable educators in the management and organizational studies domain to foster the relationship between serious leisure and perceived employability among marketing management students. The sample was 228 marketing management graduates from four business schools in India who completed an online questionnaire between December 2020 and February 2021. The findings indicate that serious leisure is positively associated with perceived employability and that the relationship is mediated by creativity. Gender moderates the mediating effect of creativity on the relationship between serious leisure and perceived employability such that the indirect effect of serious leisure on perceived employability is stronger for men than women. Practical implications enable educators and career counsellors to improve the perceived employability of their students, leading to benefits at the individual, university, and organizational levels.

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Published date: 22 May 2023

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Local EPrints ID: 480459
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/480459
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ORCID for William E. Donald: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3670-5374

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Date deposited: 02 Aug 2023 17:07
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:19

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Author: P.M. Nimmi
Author: Arathi Krishna
Author: William E. Donald ORCID iD
Editor: Bryan Christiansen
Editor: Angela M. Even

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