The facilitating effect of occupational change on job crafting and innovation performance
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Occupational change experience enhances employees
Area Of Science
- Organizational Behavior
- Career Development
- Innovation Management
Background
- Occupational change is increasingly common but theoretically understudied.
- Previous job experiences can facilitate new roles, influencing job crafting and innovation.
- Career Construction Theory provides a framework for understanding occupational change.
Purpose Of The Study
- To explore the impact of occupational change on job crafting.
- To investigate the mediating role of job crafting in innovation performance.
- To enhance understanding of occupational change within Career Construction Theory.
Main Methods
- Quantitative survey of 413 employees.
- Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to test hypotheses.
- Bootstrapped mediation analysis to examine indirect effects.
Main Results
- Occupational change experience positively correlates with job crafting.
- Job crafting fully mediates the relationship between occupational change and innovation performance.
- Employees with prior occupational change experience demonstrate higher innovation performance.
Conclusions
- Occupational change can foster job crafting and boost innovation.
- New experiences and skills from occupational changes enhance performance.
- Provides theoretical insights and managerial recommendations for occupational change.
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