akkermans & tims - crafting your career
TRANSCRIPT
KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS PRESENTATION
CAREER COMPETENCIES & JOB CRAFTING Are positively related … but reducing hindering demands shows different results
JOB CRAFTING AS A MEDIATOR … between career competencies and perceived employability … between career competencies and work-home interaction
SPILLOVER BETWEEN DOMAINS Career, Job, and Life
INTRODUCTION: THE CHANGING WORLD OF WORK ÁND CAREERS
PROACTIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT Crafting a job Crafting a career Spillover between domains
Career Competencies
Reflective Competencies
Communicative Competencies
Behavioral Competencies
Reflection on Motivation
Reflection on Qualities
Networking
Self-profiling
Work Exploration
Career Control
CAREER COMPETENCIES (AKKERMANS ET AL., 2013; 2014; 2015)
Job Crafting
Increasing Structural Job Resources
JOB CRAFTING (TIMS ET AL., 2013; 2014; 2015)
Increasing Social Job Resources
Increasing Challenging Job
Demands
Decreasing Hindering Job
Demands
METHOD
2-WAVE DATASET Total matched N=183 Approximately 1 month in-between measurement moments
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS 59.4% female; 35.47 hours per week Young employees
STRATEGY OF ANALYSIS Latent variable SEM with AMOS 21
RESULTS
BASIC FINDINGS Reducing hindering demands did not fit latent JC factor Correlations all in the expected directions
CC JC EPE & IPE Job crafting does mediate between CC and EPE Job crafting does not mediate between CC and IPE
CC JC WHI & WHE Job crafting does mediate between CC & WHI Job crafting does mediate between CC & WHE
DISCUSSION: CRAFTING YOUR CAREER
INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH ON WORK AND CAREERS … which has surprisingly been studied apart for a long time! First study to show a positive link between CC and JC
EXTENSION OF SPILLOVER MODELS Spillover not only between work and life domains Three-way spillover: work, career, ánd life
SMART JOBS Job crafting and career crafting as building
blocks for “smart jobs”