Crafting one's job to take charge of role overload: When proactivity requires adaptivity across levels

Solberg, Elizabeth; Wong, Sut I

doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.03.001

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“…This might be because those people felt a lesser need for support to complete their job. Solberg and Wong () also found an interactive effect of leadership and individual disposition. They found the relationship between perceived role overload and approach crafting became positive when employees' perceived adaptivity was high and their leaders' need for structure was low.…”

Section: Implications and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Reorienting job crafting research: A hierarchical structure of job crafting concepts and integrative review

2018

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Summary Two dominant perspectives of job crafting—the original theory from Wrzesniewski and Dutton () and the job demands resources perspective from Tims, Bakker, and Derks ()—remain separate in research. To synthesize these perspectives, we propose a three‐level hierarchical structure of job crafting, and we identify the aggregate/superordinate nature of each major job crafting construct. The first level of the structure is job crafting orientation, or approach versus avoidance crafting, which we argue is an essential yet often neglected distinction in the literature. We address the debate surrounding cognitive crafting and identify crafting form (behavioral versus cognitive crafting) as the next hierarchical level of constructs. Finally, we concur that job resources and job demands, or crafting content, capture different ways that individuals craft their jobs. Using this integrated hierarchical structure, we were able to review antecedents and outcomes from both perspectives. We show, for example, that approach crafting in its behavioral form is very similar to other proactive behaviors in the way it functions, suggesting a need for closer synthesis with the broader proactive literature, whereas avoidance crafting appears to be less proactive and often dysfunctional. On the basis of our review, we develop a road map for future research.

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Section: Implications and Future Directionsmentioning

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Reorienting job crafting research: A hierarchical structure of job crafting concepts and integrative review

2018

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“…Furthermore, this study also sheds light on when job crafting is more strongly related to work attachment. Previous research (e.g., Daniels, Beesley, Wimalasiri, & Cheyne, ; Petrou et al ., ; Solberg & Wong, ; Tims et al ., ) has found that employees actively craft their jobs in response to demanding work situations. For example, Petrou et al .…”

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“…() found that employees’ work pressure resulted in more job crafting when their job autonomy was high. Solberg and Wong () found that employees’ role overload was associated with more job crafting when they had high levels of adaptivity and their leaders had a low need for structure. Our research, however, departs from previous research in that it examines tough times a moderator of job crafting effect rather than an antecedent of job crafting.…”

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Crafting a job in ‘tough times’: When being proactive is positively related to work attachment

Wang

Demerouti

Blanc

et al. 2018

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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Employee work attachment has been found to predict many important work attitudes and behaviours. In this article, we hypothesize that job crafting will be positively associated with work attachment as indicated by psychological ownership of the job and affective organizational commitment. Moreover, drawing on theories and research on work meaning and work identity, we propose that the positive association between job crafting and work attachment will be stronger when employees experience tough times at work (i.e., low‐quality leader‐member dynamics that result from being rated as a poor performer, or experiencing job insecurity). We test our hypotheses in two studies: the first using cross‐sectional survey data from a sample of 295 employees matched with archival performance evaluation data and the second using data collected from two, time‐lagged surveys from a sample of 194 employees and their supervisors. Results from these two studies supported the main effect of job crafting on work attachment. Moreover, the analyses of moderators showed that job crafting was strongly related to work attachment for low performers or insecure job‐holders (i.e., those who experience tough times). The present research provides insights into how to build work attachment by highlighting the proactive role of employees and advances job crafting theory by identifying moderators of job crafting effects. Practitioner points Employee job crafting is positively related to work attachment (e.g., feelings of job ownership and organizational commitment). Organizations should provide employees with more opportunities to job craft so that employees would get more attached to their work and may thus achieve more positive work outcomes. Low performers and insecure job‐holders develop greater work attachment through job crafting (e.g., seeking more job resources and challenges) than high performers and secure job‐holders.

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“…Job crafting has been mostly conceptualized as a daily behavior. It describes the changes that employees make to the task, relational, or cognitive boundaries of their work, and includes activities such as redefining the scope of one's work responsibilities, altering work procedures, and seeking out new work relationships (9) .…”

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Job crafting and Work Involvement as a Mediator to Promote Head Nurses' Organizational Citizenship Behavior at Mansoura University Hospitals

Mahmoud

2017

IJND

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Crafting one's job to take charge of role overload: When proactivity requires adaptivity across levels

Cited by 50 publications

References 66 publications

Reorienting job crafting research: A hierarchical structure of job crafting concepts and integrative review

Reorienting job crafting research: A hierarchical structure of job crafting concepts and integrative review

Crafting a job in ‘tough times’: When being proactive is positively related to work attachment

Job crafting and Work Involvement as a Mediator to Promote Head Nurses' Organizational Citizenship Behavior at Mansoura University Hospitals

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