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This research investigates how career crafting influences employees' perceived employability and subjective career success, while evaluating whether job autonomy moderates these relationships. Based on proactive behaviour theory, the study analysed survey responses from 224 professionals working across different sectors in Pakistan. The findings reveal that engaging in career crafting positively and significantly links to both subjective career success and perceived employability. Similarly, job autonomy independently demonstrates a significant positive association with both career success and employability. However, statistical analysis shows that job autonomy does not act as a moderator between career crafting and these career outcomes. The findings encourage employers to integrate career crafting concepts into human resource policies to support staff well-being and long-term professional development.
Understanding how individuals shape their working lives helps organisations create better workplace environments. By demonstrating that proactive career shaping enhances both personal career satisfaction and perceived employability, this work provides human resource leaders and individuals with evidence to promote self-directed career management strategies that boost overall employee well-being.
The insights can be utilised by human resource departments, career practitioners, and organisations seeking to reform career development policies and workplace well-being programmes. The research is early-stage observational evidence based on cross-sectional survey data, meaning further operational testing would be required before developing formalised commercial workplace training tools or intervention programmes.
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Abstract Career crafting has emerged as a significant construct in the field of career development, with the potential to significantly boost individuals’ overall work satisfaction. This study aimed to examine whether career crafting could improve individual’s subjective career success and perceived employability. Career crafting is an inevitable course of career-related actions to achieve career satisfaction. Based on proactive behavior theory, it is hypothesized that career crafting would have an impact on individuals’ subjective career success and perceived employability through the moderating role of job autonomy. Using cross-sectional study design, data were collected via Google Forms survey from 224 employees working in various fields in Pakistan and data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS. The results indicate that career crafting has a significant positive relationship with subjective career success and perceived employability. Furthermore, job autonomy also has significant positive relationship with subjective career success and perceived employability. However, the moderation of job autonomy was not supported. This study provides robust insights to career practitioners, academicians, and individuals. Overall, the study expands the literature of the novel notion of career crafting and career outcomes; additionally, the study advocates organizations to include career crafting in HR policies and helping them to enhance the well-being of employees in their career development.
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DOI: 10.1186/s43093-024-00304-w
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