Job Crafting as the Bridge: Personality’s Effect on Performance and the Power of Political Skill

Abstract

Now days in competitive organizations, there is a need for employees to be proactive enough to act wisely before the happening of events, Findings illustrated that proactive personality of employees is linked with their performance, the link between proactivity and the performance of employees cannot be for granted especially in the presence of job crafting. The purpose of this research is to investigate multilevel effect of personality on performance through job crafting and the moderating role of political skill. The sample size of 35 teams was used. This study covers a total of 35 teams from telecom and banking sector of Lahore selected through purposive sampling from yielding a response rate of 83%. The current research evaluated the descriptive stats, hypothesis testing as well as correlation between variables. The data have been collected through personal and mail survey questionnaire. The method of PLS-SEM has been utilized along with SPSS 19 for descriptive statistics. The study findings showed that there is positive relationship among all mentioned variables and performance, except significant relationship of moderating variable i.e. political skill. We discovered that for development and change, organization should give better environment and offer practices which expand the performance on all level.