Future of Work and Digital Management Journal 3 Serial Number 7 2025 03 30 Designing and Explaining the Employability Model with Emphasis on Urban Management: A Qualitative Study in Public Organizations Designing and Explaining the Employability Model with Emphasis on Urban Management: A Qualitative Study in Public Organizations 1 13 EN Journal Article 2024 11 02 <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p>Employability, as one of the key components of human capital, plays a significant role in enhancing the efficiency and accountability of public organizations, particularly in the field of urban management. Accordingly, the aim of the present study is to design an employability model in public organizations with an emphasis on urban management. This research, employing a multiple grounded theory approach and drawing on existing literature and theories as well as semi-structured interviews with experts and specialists in human resources, urban planning, and public management, has developed a coherent model of employability. A purposive sampling method was used, and interviews continued until theoretical saturation was achieved. Data obtained through coding and analysis led to the extraction of 457 initial codes, 112 secondary codes, 38 concepts, and 6 categories. The employability model in public organizations is shaped by a set of individual, organizational, and environmental causal factors, contextual conditions (individual characteristics and structural–organizational features), intervening conditions (potential, facilitating, and weakening factors), and organizational strategies (such as training, empowerment, and human capital development). Finally, individual and psychological, organizational and operational, economic and developmental, as well as cultural and social outcomes were identified in the model. This model can serve as a basis for revising human resources policies in public organizations.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> https://www.journalfwdmj.com/index.php/fwdmj/article/download/80/231