“…However, a bottom-up approach initiated by proactive employees remains essential (Wang et al, 2017) as they enhance their performance in a rapidly changing work environment (Petrou et al, 2015). In addition, job crafting, which is one of the proactive behavior, is known to be related to work engagement (Frederick and VanderWeele, 2020), job satisfaction (Slemp et al, 2015;Yeşilkaya and Yıldız, 2022), low burnout (Tims et al, 2013;Pijpker et al, 2022), high performance (Tims et al, 2015;Boehnlein and Baum, 2022), and a person-job fit of urgency and this study focuses on the psychological mechanism for encouraging job crafting, which is one of the proactive activities.…”