This study examines how job resources influence employee marketability. Specifically, it tests the dual mediating roles of work engagement and job crafting and the moderating role of work orientation (calling vs. job).
A two-wave survey was conducted with 250 full-time employees from three sectors in China, namely the public sector, private enterprises and foreign-invested or joint ventures.
The results indicated that job resources were positively related to employees' marketability and that this relationship was dually mediated by work engagement and job crafting. Different work orientations – viewing work as a calling or as a job – had different significant effects on the above dual moderating process model. Calling orientation positively moderated the mediating effect of work engagement, while job orientation only moderated the initial stage, linking job resources to job crafting and it did not yield a significant conditional indirect effect on marketability.
This research contributes to theory by demonstrating that the mediation of both work engagement and job crafting and the moderation of work orientation offer a compelling explanation for how job resources influence marketability.
