From Skills to Satisfaction: The Mediating Power of Job Crafting in Teaching Careers

Abstract

Amongst all occupations, teaching remains to be one of the most highly stressful(Vazi et al., 2013). Stress and burnout are prevalent problems within the teaching profession and are recognized as a global concern. To ensure that teachers continue to perform their pivotal roles in helping their students to grow and develop, they ought to remain satisfied. Career competencies and job crafting effect on subjective career success that ultimately results in job satisfaction. This study was aimed to examine the role of career competencies and job satisfaction of teachers, and examine the potential mediating role of job crafting in relationship between career competencies and job satisfaction. A sample of 204 teachers working in public and private colleges of Gujrat, Pakistan, was selected. Andrew Hayes process macro of mediation was used to perform data analysis. A significant positive relationship was found between career competencies and job satisfaction. It was also found that job crafting significantly mediates the relationship between career competencies and job satisfaction. To conclude individual who possess career related KSAOs and aimed to achieve career goals are not passive recipient of their job but are more likely to proactively redesign their own job to create learning as well as growth opportunities that leads them to be satisfied with their job.

Keywords: Career Competencies, Job Crafting, Job Satisfaction, Proactive Behavior, Career, Teachers