Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well‐being in Lebanese nurses

AIM: To better understand the functionality of job crafting and its relationship with personality and job autonomy in the context of non‐Western health care as an adaptive problem‐solving work behaviour that is related to creativity. BACKGROUND: Job crafting could be a strategy nurses use to solve problems as health care organisations become more unpredictable. METHODS: This cross‐sectional study sampled 547 nurses from seven hospitals in Lebanon. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM). RESULTS: The job crafting dimensions of increasing structural job resources and increasing challenging job demands partially mediated the relationship between creativity and subjective well‐being, and they fully mediated the relationship between job autonomy and subjective well‐being. Creativity, job autonomy, and agreeableness were related to the approach job crafting dimensions, and two of these job crafting dimensions were in turn related to subjective well‐being. CONCLUSION: Creative nurses tend to job craft more and this is associated with their subjective well‐being. Nurses high on extraversion and emotional stability experienced higher subjective well‐being. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nursing administration and leaders may want to create an environment fostering creativity and encouraging approach‐oriented job crafting.