Designing and testing a model of some antecedents and outcomes of job crafting in employee of National Iranian Drilling Company

Subject Areas : Tectonostratigraphy

saman haddadi ¹ (master student of industrial organizational psychology at shahid chamran university of ahwaz))
nasrin arshadi ² (Associate Professor shahid Chamran University, Faculty of Education and Psychology)
nasrin arshadi ³ (professor shahid Chamran University, Faculty of Education and Psychology)

Received: 2018-01-21 Accepted : 2018-08-31 Published : 2018-04-21

Keywords: job performance, flourishing, job crafting, regulatory focus, job self-efficacy,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is designing and testing a model of some antecedents and consequences of job crafting in NIDC employee’s. A sample of this study consisted of 300 person (241 men and 59 women) from NIDC employee’s who were selected by random sampling method. The instruments used in the study were job crafting questionnaire, regulatory focus questionnaire, job self-efficacy questionnaire, job engagement questionnaire, job performance questionnaire & flourishing questionnaire. Investigate of The proposed model through structural equation modeling (SEM) and using SPSS-24 software and AMOS-24 was carried out. The proposed model is not fitted to the data in a pleasant way. Better fitness were found through the elimination of five ways which are non-significant (prevention focus to crafting structural resources, job self-efficacy to crafting social resources, challenging job demands to flourishing, self-determination to thriving at work, hindering job demands to job performance and job engagement to job performance) and five-way linking the errors. Specifically findings has shown that job engagement and job performance plays a meditating role in a relationship between job crafting with flourishing.

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