Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bring together job design and career theory in the examination of how proactive employees optimize their well-being (i.e. job satisfaction and perceived health) through job crafting and career competencies. This study offers an integrated account of the...

Purpose: In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Career Development International, a state-of-the-art overview of recent trends in job-crafting research was conducted. Since job crafting was introduced twenty years ago as a type of proactive work behavior that employees engage...

Purpose Taking attribution theory as an overarching framework, the study aims to examine how employees attribute and respond to a colleague's approach crafting. Design/methodology/approach Two complementary studies, including a scenario experiment (Study 1; N  = 114) and an online survey (Study...