Antecedents of Career Success: The Role of Protean and Boundary-less Career and Job Crafting Behavior

Abstract

This study examines the multiple mediation model between protean and boundaryless career mindsets and career satisfaction through job crafting and career commitment. Drawing on career motivation and job crafting theories, the results of a cross sectional study (French sample = 321) demonstrate that protean and boundaryless careers are associated with subjective career success in the form of career commitment and career satisfaction by way of job crafting. We find that the relationship between protean and boundaryless careers and career satisfaction is serially mediated by both job crafting and career commitment. These results bring together three different streams of the careers literature, that of protean and boundaryless careers, job crafting and subjective career success. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, and future research proposed.