Role of Job Crafting & Work Engagement: Application of Person Job (P-J) Fit

Abstract

Work is a substantial trait that plays an important preponderance people’s lives as it significantly contributes to the maintenance of a quality life. Employees who feel motivated at work after finding it meaningful they also contribute to the organizations. At national level, in countries like Pakistan there is dire need of engagement at work place. This study is conducted on the employees who are rendering services in public sector universities in Pakistan, through Person Job fit to provide recommendations and suggestions for the governing bodies like HEC and policy makers at national level to make changes in the legislation. The results of correlation between mediator and independent variable (r= .605, p-0.000), mediator and dependent variable (r=.470, p=0.00) and dependent and independent variable (r=.530 p=0.00) implies that the faculty members of the public sector universities who craft their jobs are more engaged at work when they find they find themselves fit on the job. Regression analysis results have revealed that person job fit mediated the relation between job crafting & work engagement.