Job crafting, a bottom-up job characteristic of academics with an embeddedness potential

Augustine Ebuka Arachie, Emmanuel Kalu Agbaeze, Hope Ngozi Nzewi and Emmanuela Obianuju Agbasi

Management Research Review, 2021, vol. 44, issue 7, 949-969

Abstract: Purpose - The frequent turnover of academic instructors (lecturers) to other organizations and countries despite the autonomies their job offer them necessitated; this study aims to examine the relationship between job crafting (JC) and embeddedness of lecturers to their jobs. Design/methodology/approach - A survey research design was adopted. This study is carried out in the south-east region of Nigeria. The population of the study consisted of 8,051 academic staff of six randomly selected public universities in the region and a sample size of 367 was determined using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula. The primary and secondary source of data were used in data collection and were analysed using regression analysis at a 5% level of significance. Findings - Result revealed that task crafting has a statistically significant positive relationship with employee job fit (r= 0.949,R2= 0.900,F= 2699.473,p-value

Keywords: Job crafting; Relational crafting; Task crafting; Links; Lecturers (academic instructors) Job embeddedness; Job fit; Cognitive crafting and sacrifice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1108/MRR-07-2020-0432

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