Capabilities at Work

Jac van der Klink is Emeritus Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and Extraordinary Professor at Northwest University, South Africa. He studied medicine and psychology and has worked as both a professional and scientist, specialising in the capability approach to work. Jac has published more than 250 scientific and professional articles and books. Sebastiaan Rothmann is Professor of Industrial Psychology at North-West University, South Africa. He has published about work capabilities, well-being and performance in 277 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. The Society for Industrial/Organisational Psychology of South Africa awarded him a fellowship for his contributions to the science and practice.

• Part I. The Capability Model in Relation to Work: 1. The capability model for work: an introduction; 2. Capabilities and work: new developments toward sustainability and well-being at work; 3. The capability approach in relation to contributive justice; 4. The paradox of capability assessment: investigational requirements associated with adopting capability as an informational focus of a theory of justice; 5. Integrative aspects of the capability approach; 6. Integrating the capability approach with other theories of work and employee health and well-being; Part II. Applications of the Capability Model at Different Levels in the Organisation: Conceptual and Practical Considerations: 7. Introducing justice into the governance of corporations; 8. Linking the capability approach for sustainable employability to strategic and inclusive human resource management; 9. The capability model applied to working individuals: decent and flourishing work; 10. Practical applications of the capability approach; Part III. Work Capabilities in Different Contexts: 11. (Cross-)cultural perspectives on the capability approach; 12. Decent work and social justice from the vantage point of the global south: decoloniality and the capability approach as parrhesia; 13. Work capabilities in different occupations and countries; 14. The capability approach: a guiding framework for work capabilities and leadership; 15. Future work and the capability approach: digitalisation, globalisation and climate change.