Job Crafting

Job Design vs Job Crafting
- There are indeed similarities between the former and ‘task crafting’, as job design involves systematic organization of work-related processes, functions, and tasks (Garg & Rastogi, 2006).
- Both task crafting and job design can involve task revision, where responsibilities are added or dropped to change the nature of your role. Both also stem from the premise that job dimensions can impact our experienced meaningfulness, growth, intrinsic motivation, and job satisfaction (Hackman & Oldham, 1976; 1980).
- Even job sharing under the job characteristics model can be seen as a type of relationship crafting in some respects, but in most cases, Job Design is seen as a ‘top-down’ organizational approach in which the worker is mostly passive (Makul et al., 2013; Miller, 2015).
- In contrast, Job Crafting puts the responsibility for change in employees’ hands. Workers are proactive and the approach is first and foremost about enhancing their wellbeing (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001; Tims et al., 2013). Arguably, this gives rise to potential drawbacks for the organization—even for the employee in question
Articles
- @wrzesniewskiJobCraftingCultivating2013
  - Title:: Article/Job Crafting and Cultivating Positive Meaning and Identity in Work
  - Author(s):: Arnold B. Bakker (editor), Amy Wrzesniewski, Nicholas LoBuglio, Jane E. Dutton, Justin M. Berg
  - Year:: NaN
  - Publication:: (Book) Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology
  - Date Added:: May 5th, 2022
  - Source Status:: Source Active
  - Tags:: Job Crafting, notion
  - Zotero links:: Local library, Web library, wrzesniewskiJobCraftingCultivating2013.pdf
  - URL:: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S2046-410X(2013)0000001015/full/html
- @wrzesniewskiCraftingJobRevisioning2001
  - Title: Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work
  - Author(s):: Amy Wrzesniewski, Jane E. Dutton
  - Year:: NaN
  - Publication:: The Academy of Management Review
  - Date Added:: May 5th, 2022
  - Source Status:: Source Active
  - Tags:: Job Crafting, notion
  - Zotero links:: Local library, Web library, wrzesniewskiCraftingJobRevisioning2001.pdf
  - URL:: http://www.jstor.org/stable/259118?origin=crossref
- @vanwingerdenFosteringemployeewellbeing2017
  - Title: Fostering employee well-being via a job crafting intervention
  - Author(s):: Jessica van Wingerden, Arnold B. Bakker, Daantje Derks
  - Year:: NaN
  - Publication:: Journal of Vocational Behavior
  - Date Added:: May 5th, 2022
  - Abstract:
    - This study examined the impact of an intervention based on Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory. We hypothesized that the intervention would inﬂuence participants' job crafting behaviors, as well as their basic need satisfaction. Further, we hypothesized a positive impact on participants work engagement. In addition to the proposed intervention effects, we expected that job crafting would have a positive relationship with work engagement, through basic need satisfaction. The study used a quasi-experimental design with an experimental group and a control group. Teachers completed measures pre- and post-intervention. Results of analyses of variance were largely in line with our predictions. In the intervention group, job crafting, basic need satisfaction, and work engagement increased over time. In the control group, no signiﬁcant changes were found on all variables. In addition, the results of the analysis conﬁrmed the hypothesized mediation. We discuss the implications of these ﬁndings for both JD-R theory and practice.
  - Source Status:: Source Active
  - Tags:: Job Crafting, notion
  - Zotero links:: Local library, Web library, vanwingerdenFosteringemployeewellbeing2017.pdf
  - URL:: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S000187911730026X