Proactive personality and job performance: The role of job crafting and work engagement

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 1359-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold B Bakker ◽  
Maria Tims ◽  
Daantje Derks
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Personality And Job Performance

scholarly journals Relationship Between Proactive Personality and Job Performance of Chinese Nurses: The Mediating Role of Competency and Work Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuehui Hu ◽  
Rong Zhao ◽  
Jing Gao ◽  
Jianzhen Li ◽  
Pei Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Personality And Job Performance

Background: As one of the main participants in health care, nurses are esteemed an important driving force for the vigorous health care development. Studies report that nurses’ proactive personality has positive effects on their job performance; however, this relationship acquires further understanding.Objective: A cross-sectional study was performed to explore the relationship between nurses’ proactive personality and job performance; the mediating role of nurses’ competency and work engagement in this relationship was also evaluated.Methods: The study was performed in a large third-degree general hospital in October 2019, Xi’an, PR, China. A sample of 246 nurses participated in this cross-sectional study. Proactive personality was assessed with the Proactive Personality Questionnaire (PPS), job performance was assessed by Heilman three-item measurements, nurse competence was estimated with Nurse Competency Scale (NCS), and work engagement was assessed with the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). The structural equation model was used to test the main hypotheses.Results: Structural equation model analysis revealed that work engagement partially mediated the association between proactive personality and job performance. The serial two-mediator model which was used to explore the association between proactive personality and job performance through competency and work engagement, in sequence, was demonstrated.Conclusion: This study demonstrates that work engagement partially mediated the association between nurses’ proactive personality and their job performance. The serial two-mediator model demonstrated that proactive personality was associated with job performance via competency and work engagement. This study also revealed the critical role of nursing managers in understanding the nurses’ proactive personality, which would facilitate them to enhance the latter’s competency and promote their work engagement. All these will in turn constantly improve the overall quality of nursing and advance professional development of nursing and benefits for patients.

Who benefits from time-spatial job crafting? The role of boundary characteristics in the relationship between time-spatial job crafting, engagement and performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jurgita Lazauskaite-Zabielske ◽  
Arunas Ziedelis ◽  
Ieva Urbanaviciute
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Boundary Characteristics ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Work And Life

PurposeUsing the theoretical framework of job demands-resources and boundary management, the purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating role of work and life boundary characteristics in the relationship between time-spatial job crafting, work engagement and job performance.Design/methodology/approachA total of 176 employees working in the IT sector and having an opportunity to use flexible work arrangements were surveyed online.FindingsWork and life boundary characteristics were found to moderate the relationship between time-spatial job crafting and work engagement as well as between time-spatial job crafting and job performance. Moreover, boundary characteristics moderated the indirect relationship between time-spatial job crafting and job performance through work engagement.Practical implicationsTime-spatial job crafting becomes a key strategy for maintaining work engagement and job performance, when work–life boundaries are less flexible and less permeable.Originality/valueThe study demonstrates that boundary characteristics determine the effects of time-spatial job crafting on work engagement and job performance.

scholarly journals Does Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Capital and Proactive Personality predict Job Performance?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
Munazza Zahra ◽  
Daisy Mui Kee Hung
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Relationship

With the emergence of latest technologies, manual and routine asks have been changed, ultimately it is the human abilities that will make the organizations successful as human element can never be denied. That is why organizations are concerned about the performance of their employees since their job performance directly affects the overall performance of the organization. Thus current study is proposing predictors that can enhance job performance of the employees. Taking clues from past researches, current research proposed a conceptual framework connecting three independent variables i.e. emotional intelligence, psychological capital and proactive personality to the dependent variable job performance. It has also been proposed that the relationship between aforementioned variables will consider to be more complete with the mediating role of work engagement, hence work engagement is proposed as  mediator.

scholarly journals Teacher Proactivity Influencing Student Satisfaction and Loyalty Role of Job Crafting and Work Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Zahoor
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Executive Summary

Executive Summary During the recent past, various researchers have argued that educational institutions fall within the domain of service industry ( Joseph & Beatriz, 1997 , Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 8(2), 1–13). Consequently, service marketers have placed unprecedented attention on education sector to explore the marketing aspect of academic institutions. Furthermore, because of intensifying global competition and increasing cost of education, academic institutions are placing additional emphasis on student-related outcomes rather than merely concentrating on the skills and abilities of their graduates. In this backdrop, this study investigates the hitherto unexplored antecedents of two significant student-related outcomes (student satisfaction and loyalty), that is, proactive personality of teachers. The study also provides a possible explanation of this relationship through the mediating role of job crafting and work engagement. This would help academicians to develop broader insights into the domain of antecedents of positive student experiences. Dyads of 159 teachers from 20 universities in India were created and responses were collected on job crafting and work engagement (self-ratings) and proactive personality (peer-ratings) using a structured questionnaire. About 608 students were approached from the same universities to collect data regarding their satisfaction and loyalty. The sample universities included both central and state universities. All constructs were measured using previously developed scales. The hypothesized relationships were tested in AMOS 20 using structural equation modeling. The results evidenced a significant positive influence of teacher proactivity on student satisfaction and their loyalty. Also, job crafting and work engagement are found to significantly and sequentially mediate the relationship between teacher proactivity and student outcomes. Therefore, academic practitioners are required to place additional emphasis on proactivity of the teaching staff so as to result in positive student service experience. It is suggested that the selection and recruitment process of teaching faculty be redesigned to identify proactivity of prospective teachers.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF PROACTIVE PERSONALITY ON JOB PERFORMANCE OF BANK EMPLOYEES IN PAKISTAN: WORK ENGAGEMENT AS A MEDIATOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (No.1) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Munazza Zahra ◽  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Personality And Job Performance ◽  
Bank Employees ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the proactive personality of Pakistani bank employees influenced their job performance. With the awareness of the importance of job performance in the banking sector of Pakistan, researchers also examined the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between proactive personality and job performance. A total of 315 responses were obtained from officers to test the relationship between proactive personality and job performance, and to examine the mechanism via work engagement. The researchers analyzed respondents’ demographic profiles in SPSS version 23 and developed several hypotheses through structural equation modelling technique which were tested in SmartPLS version 3. The findings of the study showed a significant positive relationship between proactive personality and the three dimensions of job performance: task performance, individual- directed citizenship behavior (OCBI), and organizational-directed citizenship behavior (OCBO). The study results also supported the main hypothesis that work engagement mediated the relationship between proactive personality and job performance. The findings of the study present a few useful insights to the HR department and policymakers in the banking sector. Proactive personality should be considered as one of the necessary dispositions to be evaluated in hiring decisions. Bank management should devote more attention on the work engagement of employees and its related factors to boost employees’ performance at work.

scholarly journals Crafting an Interesting Job: Stimulating an Active Role of Older Workers in Enhancing Their Daily Work Engagement and Job Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorien T A M Kooij ◽  
Helen Nijssen ◽  
P Matthijs Bal ◽  
Daphne T F van der Kruijssen
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Psychology Literature

Abstract Since workforces are aging rapidly worldwide, older workers need to work longer. Therefore, this study investigated active ways through which older workers shape their job to age successfully at work. We build on the lifespan psychology literature and the activation hypothesis to argue that activating workdays, characterized by high work pressure and high autonomy, stimulate older workers to engage in job crafting behaviors aimed at making their jobs more interesting (i.e., interests crafting) rather than in job crafting behaviors aimed at lowering their work pressure (i.e., work pressure crafting). Interests crafting in turn enhances the work engagement and job performance of older workers. We conducted a daily diary study among 128 older workers and found that activating workdays were indeed positively associated with daily interests crafting, and that daily interests crafting was positively related to daily work engagement and daily job performance. In contrast, we found that although daily work pressure was positively associated with daily work pressure crafting, an activating workday was not, and engaging in work pressure crafting was negatively associated with daily work engagement and job performance. These results demonstrate that older workers can be stimulated daily to engage in effective job crafting behaviors to make sure that they are motivated and productive members of the workforce.

scholarly journals Job Crafting as a Mediator between Work Engagement and Wellbeing Outcomes: A Time-Lagged Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Robledo ◽  
Salvatore Zappalà ◽  
Gabriela Topa
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

This time-lagged study, using the framework of the JD-R model, tested the mediating role of job crafting measuring: at T1, work engagement, workaholism and emotional exhaustion; at T2, job crafting; and, at T3, flourishing, job performance and job satisfaction. Respondents were 443 Spanish employees working in different companies. Results show that job crafting mediates the relationship between work engagement and some of its outcomes (job performance and flourishing). In particular, the job crafting component ‘increasing structural job resources’ mediates the positive effect of work engagement on flourishing and job performance, and the job crafting component ‘increasing challenging demands’ mediates the positive effect of work engagement on job performance. No job crafting mediation is found between work engagement and job satisfaction.

Job crafting and extra-role behavior: The role of work engagement and flourishing

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Demerouti ◽  
Arnold B. Bakker ◽  
Josette M.P. Gevers
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Role Behavior
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