The role of person-job fit on innovative work behaviors mediated by job independence and job engagement of teachers

Objective: This study aimed to the role of person-job fit on innovative work behaviors mediated by job independence and job engagement of teachers. Method: This research is applied; it is descriptive due to method and from correlation type of the structural equation model. The statistical population of the study includes the primary school teachers in Zahedan (2200 teachers); 329 teachers were selected using a Stratified random sampling method by Krejcie and Morgan table.The questionnaires of person-job fit of Vogel and Feldman (2009), innovative work behavior of Johnson (2000), job independence of Pearson & Hall (1993), and job engagement of Salanova and Schaufeli (2001) were used for data collection.Findings: The findings indicated that the person-job fit directly has a positive and significant effect on innovative work behaviors, and it indirectly has a positive and significant effect on innovative work behaviors via the job independence and job engagement. Conclusion: According to the findings, it is possible to suggest that teachers should be selected who are fit with the teaching profession, their engagement for the teaching job to be evident, and the ground of job independence should be provided to the teachers in order to increase innovative work behaviors in education.