부산대학교 도서관

The purpose of this study was to examine structural relationships among job crafting, organizational climate, autonomy related to teaching, and teaching flow of kindergarten teachers. This study was conducted with 565 kindergarten teachers working in the Seoul metropolitan area completed survey questionnaires, and the data were analyzed through structural equation modeling. The result of the study were as follows. The kindergarten teachers’ job crafting (tasks, cognition, and relational) fully mediated the relationship between organizational climate and teaching flow and partially mediated the relationship between autonomy related to teaching and teaching flow. That is, the organizational climate of the kindergarten had a positive effect on teaching flow via job crafting, and kindergarten teachers’ autonomy related to teaching had both a direct and an indirect positive effect via job crafting on teaching flow. These results suggest that kindergarten teachers’ job crafting is an important mediating variable that is influenced by organizational climate and autonomy related to teaching and influences teaching flow positively. As a empirical study on kindergarten teachers’ job crafting performance, this study has major implications for understanding kindergarten teachers’ positive work behaviors in educational contexts and the facilitative roles of the organization.