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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of work engagement on job crafting and innovativeness in the Indian information technology (IT) industry. The authors also theorized and examined the moderating effect of perceived supervisory support (PSS) and openness-to-experience (OTE) in aforementioned relationships respectively.Design/methodology/approachThe authors base their arguments on the job-demands and resource (JDR) theoretical model and broaden-and-build theory. Field data from 377 working IT professionals were collected using the survey method. The model was tested using partial least squares (PLS) technique.FindingsResults support the main effects hypothesis. The authors find a significant and positive relationship between work engagement and job crafting behavior and innovativeness.Research limitations/implicationsThe study makes a reasonable contribution to existing knowledge on work engagement and its outcomes. However, the use of cross-sectional data may constrain causal inferences.Practical implicationsInnovativeness and job crafting behaviors are valuable to most organizations, but more critical in IT organizations. As illustrated in this paper, work-engaged employees display higher levels of innovativeness and job-crafting behavior. These results suggest that IT organizations should focus on work-engagement for better productivity and faster growth.Originality/valueThis study is an attempt towards a better understanding of work engagement and its micro level individual outcomes which have not been examined earlier.

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Resistance to therapy and metastasis remains one of the leading causes of mortality due to cervical cancer despite advances in detection and treatment. The mechanism of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) provides conceptual explanation to the invasiveness and metastatic spread of cancer but it has not been fully understood in cervical cancer. This study aims to investigate the mechanism by which silencing of E‐cadherin gene regulates EMT leading to proliferation, invasion, and chemoresistance of cervical cancer cells through the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway. We developed an in vitro EMT model by the knockdown of E‐cadherin expression in cervical cancer cell lines. To understand the role of developmental pathway like Hh in the progression of cervical cancer, we investigated the expression of Hh pathway mediators by array in E‐cadherin low cervical cancer cells and observed upregulation of Hh pathway. This was further validated on low passage patient‐derived cell lines and cervical carcinoma tissue sections from cervical cancer patients. Further, we evaluated the role of two inhibitors (cyclopamine and GANT58) of the Hh pathway on invasiveness and apoptosis in E‐cadherin low cervical cancer cells. In conclusion, we observed that inhibition of Hh pathway with GANT58 along with current therapeutic procedures could be more effective in targeting drug‐resistant EMT cells and bulk tumor cells in cervical cancer.