Abstract
Achieving successes in their career represents an important outcome for individuals and their employing organizations. Organizational management practices play an important role in fostering career success. Such practices as high performance work system has been adopted in organizations to enhance employee and organizational effectiveness. While HPWS has been found to correlate with a range of individual positive outcomes, its influence on career success has not been widely investigated. The current research adopts the Kaleidoscope Career Model to explain the impact of high-performance work system on subjective career success. To clarify the mechanism of impact, job crafting has been introduced as a possible mediating variable. Finally, employees’ attribution of HPWS was expected to moderate the association between high-performance work system and job crafting in a moderated mediation model. Data from a two-wave survey provide supports for the proposed hypotheses. High-performance work system enables the employees to satisfy their career needs both directly and indirectly through job crafting. Career need satisfaction enhance the perception of career success. In addition, high-performance work system which is thought to be adopted to comply with external regulation reduce the positive link between such systems and job crafting.
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Tran Huy, P. Crafting your career success: the role of high-performance work system, HRM attribution, and job crafting. Curr Psychol 43, 10264–10280 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05162-3
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