Abstract:

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the predictive power of big five and proactive personality traits on task crafting, cognitive crafting and relational crafting, which are sub-dimensions of job crafting. In addition, it was also tested whether the sub-dimensions of job crafting differ in terms of gender and working period. Data were obtained from 255 public and private sector employees (80 female, 175 male) by convenience sampling method. In data collection, Big Five Personality Traits Inventory developed by Benet-Martinez and John (1998) and adapted into Turkish by Sümer and Sümer (2005); The Shortened Proactive Personality Scale developed by Claes, Beheydt and Lemmens (2005) and adapted into Turkish by Akın and Arıcı Özcan (2015); Job Crafting Scale developed by Slemp and Vella Brodrick (2013) and adapted into Turkish by Kerse (2017) were used. The findings revealed that female employees exhibit more relational crafting, and employees who have worked in the organization for 11 years or more have higher levels of cognitive crafting than those who have worked in the first five years. Based on the findings of the three-step hierarchical analysis conducted to examine the predictive power of big five and proactive personality on the sub-dimensions of job crafting, it was found that significant predictors of task crafting were proactivity and openness to experience, proactivity and agreeableness predicted cognitive crafting, and finally significant predictors of relational crafting were extraversion, proactivity, agreeableness, and gender, respectively.

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