Committed to their craft: Understanding the relationship between job crafting and work commitment among faculty in the United States

McNaughtan, Jon; Thacker, Russell; Eicke, Dustin; Freeman, Sydney

doi:10.1111/hequ.12293

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“…Research on empowerment within the field of higher education has increased over the last decade (McNaughtan et al, 2021;Youn & Price, 2009). Results of this work have illustrated the power that empowerment can have in increasing employee satisfaction, retention, and engagement (Whetten & Cameron, 2014;Lawrence et al, 2012;McNaughtan, Thacker, Eicke, & Freeman, 2022). Despite this growing body of work, little has focused on the potentially different effects of empowerment constructs by sex, race, or age.…”

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Similarities and Differences in the Structure and Interpretation of Empowerment and Job Satisfaction between Minority and Majority Faculty Members

Lasker¹,

McNaughtan²

2022

IJEPL

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Faculty empowerment is a more important topic today than ever before, as faculty roles have become increasingly complex. Moreover, an increase in minority faculty has presented universities with the need to understand the complex interactions between demographics and empowerment to better promote employees’ well-being. Past research has found that racial majority and minority faculty perceive their experiences as faculty differently. In this study, we used an empowerment framework and structural equation modeling to investigate similarities and differences in workplace empowerment for a sample of 720 racial majority and minority faculty members. Empowerment was largely similar for majority and minority faculty members, but the construct of self-determination had different meanings for minority faculty members, and it was more strongly related to trust in their institutions and the personal consequences of their work. Moreover, minority faculty members’ beliefs about their capabilities, the specialness of their work, and their ability to make decisions about their work were more important for efficacy, meaning, and self-determination than they were for majority faculty members. Résumé De nos jours, l’autonomisation du corps professoral est un sujet plus important que jamais, dans un contexte où les rôles qu’il est appelé à jouer deviennent de plus en plus complexes. D’autre part, vu le nombre croissant d’enseignants issus de minorités, l’université a besoin de mieux comprendre les rapports complexes entre démographie et autonomisation afin de mieux assurer le bien-être de ses employés. Certaines études ont déjà observé que les majorités perçoivent leur vécu en milieu universitaire de manière différente que les minorités visibles. Dans l’étude actuelle, nous utilisons un cadre d’autonomisation et la modélisation d’équations structurelles afin d’enquêter sur les ressemblances et différences relatives à l’autonomisation au travail dans un échantillon de 720 universitaires de majorités et de minorités visibles. En gros, le niveau d’autonomisation est semblable pour les universitaires majoritaires et minoritaires, mais l’autodétermination a un sens différent pour les minoritaires, celle-ci étant étroitement liée à la confiance qu’ils ont dans leurs institutions et aux conséquences personnelles de leur travail. En outre, comparée à celle des majoritaires, l’attitude des universitaires minoritaires envers leurs propres capacités, le caractère unique de leur travail et leur liberté de prendre des décisions sur leur travail a un plus grand effet sur leur efficacité, le sens qu’ils prêtent à leur travail et leur autodétermination. Keywords / Mots clés : academia, critical race theory, empowerment, faculty, structural equation modeling / milieu universitaire, théorie critique de la race, autonomisation, corps professoral, modélisation d’équations structurelles

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Similarities and Differences in the Structure and Interpretation of Empowerment and Job Satisfaction between Minority and Majority Faculty Members

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McNaughtan²

2022

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Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting

Noesgaard

Jørgensen

2023

European Management Journal

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Approach versus avoidance strategies in job crafting and their relationship to prosocial service behavior in university professors

Ortega-Egea,

Ruiz-Moreno,

Cabeza-Pulles

2024

Studies in Higher Education

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Committed to their craft: Understanding the relationship between job crafting and work commitment among faculty in the United States

Abstract: Faculty engage in several institutional activities typically categorised as teaching, research and service. Within those activities there are numerous potential tasks, and research denotes that faculty often bemoan this work which can lead to turnover and lack of commitment. We present the

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Similarities and Differences in the Structure and Interpretation of Empowerment and Job Satisfaction between Minority and Majority Faculty Members

Similarities and Differences in the Structure and Interpretation of Empowerment and Job Satisfaction between Minority and Majority Faculty Members

Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting

Approach versus avoidance strategies in job crafting and their relationship to prosocial service behavior in university professors

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