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    Crafting Careers of Project Management Professionals: The Role of Job Crafting in Fostering Sustainable Careers through Project Engagement
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2025) Danish Min Allah; SP23-RPM-005; Dr. Syed Muhammad Irfan; LHR TP 9829
    Project management literature predominantly focuses on exploring and measuring project success, largely ignoring how project employees sustain their careers. Akkermans et al. (2020) suggest that there is a need to examine how individual agency, proactive behaviors, and contextual enablers contribute to boosting individual careers. They further suggest that project management literature needs to be integrated into other fields, such as careers and human resource management (HRM), to enrich this field. Project management scope expands from traditional construction projects to various domains of life, including software development, marketing, fashion design, and interior design, among others. Similarly traditional, waterfall rigid step-by-step methodologies to flexible, iterative such as agile, Kanban, hybrid, and lean methodologies have emerged. The software industry is among the fastest-growing sectors in Pakistan, and agile project management requires project team members to demonstrate proactive behaviors towards job design and be responsible for managing their careers. Based on Job Demands and Resources (JD-R) theory, this study aims to investigate project management professionals sustain their careers through job crafting, mediated by project engagement. We examine whether the contextual factor, such as protean careers, further strengthens these relationships. This study utilizes a cross sectional (time-lag) research design and survey approach to collect data from 315 employees working on software projects in Lahore, Pakistan. A structural equation modeling approach was used to analyze the relationship between the studied variables. We run the structural model using Hayes (2018) process model 7 and use self-developed estimands to analyze the moderated mediation relationships instead of using SPSS x macros. The results of this study show that job crafting significantly contributes to protean career orientation and career sustainability. Project engagement partially mediate the positive relationships between job crafting and career sustainability. The results of this study provide help to human resources managers, project managers, and organizations to develop strategies and policies to stimulate proactive behaviors, making employees responsible for their career sustainability.