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Can Job-Embedded Employees Be Satisfied? The Role of Job Crafting and Goal-Striving Orientations

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This study investigates the effects of job embeddedness on employee job crafting and job satisfaction. Based on goal-striving orientations, we propose a moderated mediation model with job crafting as the mediator of the linkage between job embeddedness and job satisfaction, and with three goal-striving orientations (accomplishment striving, status striving, and communion striving) as the moderators. We tested our hypotheses using a two-phase survey, with data collected from 138 employees from various industries in southern China. The theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.

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Zhang, I.D., Lam, L.W., Dong, L. et al. Can Job-Embedded Employees Be Satisfied? The Role of Job Crafting and Goal-Striving Orientations. J Bus Psychol 36, 435–447 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-020-09684-6

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