A Plebiscite on Job-Crafting Behaviors in Indian Employees: Structure, Incidences, Evidences and other Complexities

Abstract

The presence of job crafting behaviors is a well-researched phenomenon, but there is a paucity of empirical scales that measure such behaviors. However, in recent times there is some development in this area where new scales to measure job crafting behaviors have evolved, though more so in western cultures. This study utilizes the 15 item JCQ (Slemp & Vella-Brodrick, 2013) to; a) check for its structural validity and psychometric in Indian context, b) explore the incidences of whether Indian employees engage job crafting and to upto what extent they engage in those behaviors. While utilizing a diverse sample, this study also addresses the issue as to whether there is any evidence of manifestation of such discretionary behaviors by only a specific category of workers. In addition to these, the study also caters to the important gender and demographic differences and deviations with special respect to Indian employees in general.