Section One
Bruce Ellig, the former Vice President of Human
Resources for Pfizer, has provided another view of the concept
of employability and the respective obligations of employers
and employees:
[I]t is hard to argue against a position that says
individuals have a responsibility to be the best
they can be to improve their employability, and
employers have a responsibility to ensure they
are getting the best results from each employee
before terminating them. This means that the
employer has an obligation to coach and counsel
as well as to provide appropriate training
programs. Training programs provide the
opportunity to improve existing skills and/or
acquire new ones. It is the employer’s
responsibility to make such opportunities
available; it is the employee’s responsibility to
take advantage of them.^23