Mediating Role of Coping on the Relationship Among Individual Resources Job Crafting and Job Engagement

Year 2021, Volume: 35 Issue: 4, 1741 - 1754, 17.12.2021

Nejat Basım , Murat Güler , Metin Ocak

https://doi.org/10.48070/erciyesakademi.1002287

Cited By: 5

Abstract

Employees' engagement is effected by the resources they have to fulfill job demands and their level of job crafting. In this study, we investigated the mediating role of employees' coping skills on the relationship among individual resources, job crafting, and engagement in the context of job demands and resources. For this purpose, the research hypotheses were tested by applying quantitative analyses of the data collected from 276 employees using the questionnaire method through the core self-evaluations, coping with stress, job engagement, and job crafting scales. The findings have shown that coping and job crafting have a significant sequential mediating role on the effect of positive core self-evaluations on job engagement. It has been evaluated employees’ personal resources positively effect job engagement through coping abilities and job crafting. The findings were discussed in the context of the literature and it has been suggested that the job demands-resources model can be expanded with the concept of coping.

Keywords

Core self-evaluations, Coping, Job crafting, Job engagement, Job demands-resources model

Bireysel Kaynaklar, İşi Biçimlendirme ve İşe Tutulma İlişkisinde Başa Çıkmanın Aracılık Rolü

Abstract

Çalışanların işlerine tutulmaları, iş taleplerine karşı sahip oldukları kaynaklardan ve işlerini biçimlendirebilme düzeylerinden etkilenmektedir. Bu çalışmada İş Talepleri-Kaynakları Modelinde belirtilen bireysel kaynaklar, işi biçimlendirme ve işe tutulma ilişkisinde, çalışanların başa çıkma becerilerinin aracılık rolü araştırılmıştır. Bu amaçla temel benlik değerlendirmeleri, başa çıkma, işi biçimlendirme ve işe tutulma ölçekleri kullanılarak 276 çalışandan anket yöntemiyle toplanan verinin nicel analizleri yapılmış ve araştırmanın hipotezleri test edilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular olumlu benlik değerlendirmesinin işe tutulma üzerindeki etkisinde başa çıkmanın ve işi biçimlendirmenin anlamlı bir biçimde sıralı aracılık rolünün olduğunu göstermiştir. Çalışanların sahip oldukları kişisel kaynaklarının, başa çıkma yeteneklerini ve işi biçimlendirmelerini etkilemesi yoluyla nihai olarak işe tutulmalarını olumlu yönde etkilediği değerlendirilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular yazın bağlamında tartışılarak İş Talepleri-Kaynakları Modelinin başa çıkma kavramıyla geliştirilebileceği önerilmiştir.

Keywords

Temel benlik değerlendirmeleri, Başa çıkma, İşi biçimlendirme, İşe tutulma, İş talepleri-kaynakları modeli

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