This research introduces career crafting to describe a set of lifelong career behaviors that individuals engage in when developing their meaningful career paths. The Career Crafting Assessment (CCA), based on the defined criteria of career crafting, was developed to measure the construct and its validity was tested across two studies. Exploratory factor analysis in Study 1 revealed that the CCA is multidimensional, composed of four factors. Confirmatory factor analysis in Study 2 further specified that the CCA is hierarchical, demonstrating a good model fit of a four-factor model with a higher-order factor. Correlational tests indicated that career crafting is positively related to existing career constructs, demonstrating convergent validity. Furthermore, the CCA predicted meaningful work, work engagement, and subjective career success, providing concurrent validity. Finally, a series of hierarchical regression tests revealed that career crafting accounts for more of the variance in meaningful work and work engagement than job crafting but not in subjective career success, partially providing incremental evidence. Overall, study findings suggest that (a) career crafting is a distinct construct, and (b) the CCA is a valid measure for assessing career crafting that can be used to better understand lifelong career behaviors to make one’s career more meaningful and engaging.

Gender inequality is a widespread organizational challenge, however, research on gender in the workplace suffers from stagnation in mainstream management research. A positive work and organizations perspective has the capacity to augment problem‐focused gender research with new approaches to boosting gender equity. Yet, contributions that utilize such a perspective are sparsely spread across nearly two decades’ time and dozens of journals with differing disciplinary foci. This paper aims to reinvigorate gender research in management research by consolidating insights that have emerged through the application of a positive perspective. Therefore, we systematically review articles published in 21 management and psychological journals between 2001 and 2016. Four main themes emerged as drivers of gender research from a positive perspective: performance, social integration, well‐being, and justice/moral matters. The contributions within these themes highlight pathways to organizational flourishing through positive diversity and inclusion behaviors and practices. Thus, this paper provides a conceptual map for navigating and planning further research.