“…OBSE is relevant to studying job crafting since recent literature has recognized it as a significant resource for contributing to employee self‐improvement (Hahn & Mathews, ). Among various personal resources, it is the best predictor of work engagement (Costantini, Ceschi, Viragos, De Paola, & Sartori, ), and past research has conceptualized OBSE as the personal resource that equips employees to successfully comprehend and control their working environment (Kim & Beehr, ; Kim & Hyun, ; Zwingmann, Wolf, & Richter, ). In this study, we expect that employees having high OBSE are more likely to optimally utilize their possessed resources to cope with job changes since they feel they are competent to do so (Pierce & Gardner, ).…”