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Uncovering Project Management Professionals Careers: A JD-R and Career Construction Theory Approach
(Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2024) Mahnoor; CIIT/SP23-RPM-008/LHR; Dr. Syed Muhammad Irfan; LHR TP 9621
The project management literature on how project employees experience their unique careers is still understudied, and there is little knowledge about the career paths of project employees. Interestingly, literature regarding sustainable careers, their antecedents, consequences, and boundary conditions is also in its infancy. This research addresses these research gaps by integrating careers and the project management field to understand better the procedures and structures that influence the career sustainability of project employees. Considering the individual perspective, this research uncovers and enriches our understanding of how job crafting behavior contributes to career sustainability and satisfaction through optimization of job demands and resources by considering Job Demands and Resources (JD-R) and Career Construction Theory Lense. Additionally, examine whether employee autonomy at projects as a boundary condition strengthens the proposed relationships. This study utilizes a cross-sectional (time-lag) research design and survey approach to collect data from 230 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 macros. The results of this study show that job crafting significantly contributes to career sustainability and career satisfaction. Sustainable careers partially mediate the positive relationships between job crafting and career satisfaction. Further, the moderated mediation results show that additional job resources, such as job autonomy, further strengthen job crafting and career success relationships mediated by 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.
I am my Own Project Manager: How Project Workers’ Self-Leadership Triggers Job Crafting and their Creative Performance
(Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2025) Amina Amjad; FA23-RPM-003; Dr. Syed Muhammad Irfan; LHR TP 9830
Individual agencies are crucial for fostering creativity and enhancing performance in software development organizations, particularly those with project-based operations. Through the mediating role of job crafting, this study examines how self-leadership, which refers to an individual's ability to inspire and influence themselves to enhance creative project performance, is facilitated. Additionally, this study examines how perceived organizational support for creativity serves as a moderator, suggesting that a supportive corporate climate enhances the benefits of job crafting on creativity. Grounded in Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) theory, this study examines how project workers utilize their personal job resources through self-leadership and redefine their roles through job crafting by accumulating these resources to enhance their creative project performance. Furthermore, in the presence of additional job resources from perceived organizational support, project employees are motivated and engaged in job crafting to further strengthen the proposed relationships. A quantitative, time-lagged survey design will be employed to test the proposed framework, collecting data from employees involved in software development projects. The findings aim to advance theoretical understanding of the interplay between self-leadership, job crafting, and organizational support in enhancing creativity. Practically, the results offer valuable insights into the software industry in formulating strategies and interventions that encourage self-leadership and job crafting behaviors to boost creative project performance

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