Does job crafting lead to improved quality of life among Indian employees? Establishing a mediation model

Positive Organizational Psychology (POP) focuses on studying the positive emotional states that employees experience at work. The measurement of positive subjective experiences includes authentic happiness and quality of life assessments. The development of POP requires researchers to identify essential factors that influence outcome variables. Employees use job crafting as an active behaviour to discover purpose in their assigned work tasks. Our work aims to explore whether job crafting can predict quality of life among employees. We hypothesize that when employees craft their jobs, it improves their quality of life. We herein explore the serial mediation effects of futuristic time perspective and authentic happiness in the relationship between job crafting and quality of life. We collected data from 320 employees working across various multinational companies in India and found that job crafting enhances quality of life among employees vis-à-vis authentic happiness. Our results suggest that job crafting leads to a better quality of life through increased authentic happiness among employees. The mediation analysis revealed that job crafting leads to quality of life improvement through authentic happiness, which then affects the futuristic time perspective. Our findings demonstrate how proactive work behaviors such as job crafting foster positive psychological outcomes, thereby enriching POP literature. Practically speaking, workers who experience positive subjective experiences will naturally become more productive while achieving their best performance levels.