Career management behaviours and subjective career success : job crafting and personenvironment fit as personal resources

dc.contributor.authorOlckers, Chantal
dc.contributor.authorKoekemoer, Eileen
dc.contributor.emaileileen.koekemoer@up.ac.za
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-27T05:25:55Z
dc.date.available2025-08-27T05:25:55Z
dc.date.issued2025-07
dc.description.abstractCareer involves proactive behaviours to advance employee's professional standing. Drawing on the Conservation of Resources and Career Construction theories, this study focuses on how employees manage their careers proactively by changing or shaping their jobs (through job crafting and person-environment fit) to experience subjective career success. Data were collected in South Africa from 492 working adults through electronic surveys, and the relationships were explored through structural equation modelling. This study adds insights into the underlying mechanism (i.e., person-environment fit) that elucidates how approach crafting (career management behaviour) relates to subjective career success. Illustrating how employees can utilise approach crafting (by increasing structural and social resources or by increasing challenging demands) as a resource-generating behaviour to improve their person-environment fit. Thus, as a result of job crafting, person-environment fit can be utilised as a personal resource to increase subjective career success.
dc.description.departmentHuman Resource Management
dc.description.librarianhj2025
dc.description.sdgSDG-08: Decent work and economic growth
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/home/ACD
dc.identifier.citationOlckers, C., & Koekemoer, E. (2025). Career Management Behaviours and Subjective Career Success: Job Crafting and Person–Environment Fit as Personal Resources. Australian Journal of Career Development, 34(2), 184-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162251345421.
dc.identifier.issn1038-4162 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2200-6974 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1177/10384162251345421
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/104007
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage
dc.rights© Australian Council for Educational Research 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.subjectApproach crafting
dc.subjectCareer resources
dc.subjectMediation
dc.subjectProactive behaviours
dc.subjectNeeds-ability fit
dc.subjectSupply-demands fit
dc.titleCareer management behaviours and subjective career success : job crafting and personenvironment fit as personal resources
dc.typeArticle

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