By summing up, the present study highlights the importance of calling phenomena by unveiling the positive and negative aspects of certain mechanisms such as living a calling and job crafting that affect occupational burnout. Additionally, the study investigated that job crafting moderated the negative relationship between living a calling and occupational burnout and supported the mediated moderation results. It indicated that living a calling act as a mediating mechanism between perceiving a calling and occupational burnout. The findings reveal that the individuals’ perceiving a calling helps reduce occupational burnout. To test the hypotheses, PROCESS-macro was used to test the relationships. The data were collected in two phases from 254 participants working in Pakistan’s different organizations (i.e., manufacturing, banking, and higher education). This form of enactment produces interpersonal and intrapersonal processes that help buffer the negative consequences of not realizing a calling.īy employing work as a calling theory, this study examines the direct influence of perceiving a calling on occupational burnout, the mediating effect of living a calling between the perceiving a calling and occupational burnout association, and the moderating role of job crafting between the relationship of living a calling and occupational burnout. This phenomenon occurs because workplace personalization can be used to represent unanswered callings performed in the past and present, or that are intended to be performed in the future. Some participants enjoy some of the benefits of perceiving a calling, even without performing it in a formal work role. Our study revealed that through this strategy, individuals retain the aspects of an unanswered calling in their self-concept and then reduce the consequences of not realizing the calling. We developed a grounded theory regarding how people cope with their unanswered callings through a previously unexplored strategy in the calling literature: workplace personalization.

The literature has highlighted that such unanswered callings produce negative outcomes in the individual’s career and personal life and that coping strategies, such as job and leisure crafting, can help them buffer such consequences. Individuals are sometimes unable to realize their callings in their formal careers.

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