Job crafting among Baghdad University Members

Abstract

The research aims to identify job Crafting in general and across its four dimensions: increasing structural job resources, decreasing hindering job demands, increasing social job resources, and increasing challenging job demands. It also examines whether Are there statistically significant differences in job crafting among the employees of the University of Baghdad according to the variables (gender, educational level, years of service, and age) in general and in each of the four dimensions mentioned above. The research sample consisted of (197) employees at the University of Baghdad, including (62 ) males and (135 ) females, who responded to the Tim et al(2012) job Crafting scale. The results showed that: The sample exhibited a high degree of job Crafting in general and according to its four dimensions mentioned above, and there are no statistically significant differences in job Crafting according to the variables (gender, years of service and age) and their interactions with the exception of the educational level variable, in addition to the interaction between gender and educational level variables, post-test comparisons (Scheffe) revealed significant differences between holders of a diploma and those with higher degree, in favor of a diploma degree, there were also differences between holders of a diploma and a bachelor’s degree, in favor of the bachelor’s degree.The results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in (increasing structural job resources) according to the variables of educational level, years of service, age and their interactions, with the exception of the gender variable, in favor of males. There were no statistically significant differences in (decreasing hindering job demands) for any of the variables. However there were statistically significant differences in the educational level and the interaction of gender * educational level, as well as the interaction of gender * educational level * number of years of service. No significant differences were found for the other variables. Additionally, There were no statistically significant differences in (increasing challenging job demands) for any of the variables.