JOB CRAFTING: A STUDY OF JOB CRAFTING QUESTIONNAIRE DEVELOPMENT IN TURKISH

Job crafting refers to the physical and cognitive changes that individuals make in relation to their tasks or works. A thorough understanding on the job crafting concept can particularly be helpful for researchers on the way of exploring the predictors of individual and organizational performance outcomes. This study aims to introduce the job crafting concept and to develop a Turkish Job Crafting Scale. Data collected on different samples of employees from different occupations were analysed through the IBM SPSS 21 and LISREL 8.8 programs. The data underwent to a number of procedures such as the face validity (n=34), content validity, test-retest reliability (n=63), inter-item reliability, internal consistency reliability, exploratory (n=247) and confirmatory (n=688) factor analyses. Following the convergent and discriminant validity analyses, the Turkish Job Crafting Questionnaire development process was completed