Regulatory-focused job crafting, person-job fit and internal employability–examining interrelationship and underlying mechanism
ISSN: 2049-3983
Article publication date: 11 July 2022
Issue publication date: 8 May 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper examines the relationships between regulatory-focused job crafting, i.e. promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting, person-job fit and internal employability and explores the direct and underlying mediation process using conservation of resources and job demands-resources theories.
Design/methodology/approach
Survey data collected from 425 executives of India based public sector enterprises were used to test hypotheses.
Findings
Promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting respectively had a contrasting relationship with needs-supplies fit. The relationship with demands-abilities fit was statistically significant only in the case of prevention-focused job crafting. These two job crafting forms respectively had a positive and a negative effect on internal employability, both directly as well as indirectly through person-job fit.
Practical implications
Employees can pursue promotion-focused job crafting and avoid prevention-focused job crafting to improve their person-job fit as well as internal employability which subsequently may have multiple favourable outcomes at an organizational and individual level.
Originality/value
The study, for the first time, empirically investigates the differential role of individuals' efforts in the form of promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting, in influencing internal employability and explains its underlying mechanism through person-job fit. These interrelationships may have important implications for employees' job demand management process and job choices.
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Acknowledgements
The authors are thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and suggestions.
Funding: The author(s) received no financial support for the research or publication of this article.
Citation
Sameer, S.K. and Priyadarshi, P. (2023), "Regulatory-focused job crafting, person-job fit and internal employability–examining interrelationship and underlying mechanism", Evidence-based HRM, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBHRM-08-2021-0163
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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