The Effects of Age on Job Crafting: Exploring the Motivations and Behavior of Younger and Older Employees in Job Crafting

Baroudi, Sabrine El; Khapova, Svetlana N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43434-6_42

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“…Age appears to be weakly, negatively related to most dimensions of job crafting, but positively associated with the dimension "increasing structural resources," which involves altering some aspects of one's job to make it more motivating (Tims & Bakker, 2010). A qualitative study found that older employees engage the most in task crafting (i.e., changing the scope, number, and type of job tasks), while younger employees also engage in relational crafting (i.e., changing the amount and quality of interactions at work) and in cognitive crafting (i.e., changing the cognitive boundaries of one's job, such as taking up more responsibilities Baroudi & Khapova, 2017).…”

Section: Age and Task Craftingmentioning

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“…Our first contribution to the literature is a test of the mediated relationship among age, crafting, and performance. Increasing theoretical and empirical accounts suggest a positive correlation between age and crafting (Baroudi & Khapova, 2017;Kooij et al, 2015), and particularly revealing are recent intervention studies (e.g., Kooij et al, 2017) that, adopting strong experimental designs, show that older workers benefit from crafting interventions in terms of perceived job fit and wellbeing. However, the assumption based on P-J fit theory-that older workers are able to perform better via crafting their tasks-was to date largely unverified.…”

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The Effect of Age on Daily Positive Emotions and Work Behaviors

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This study draws on socioemotional selectivity and person–job fit theories to investigate the emotional bases for age-related differences in daily task crafting and in-role performance. We tested a mediation model in which age is related to positive emotions that in turn predict task crafting and in-role performance. A total of 256 people working in multiple organizations participated in a 5-day diary study. Multilevel modeling showed that, at the person level of analysis, age is significantly and positively related to positive emotions and task crafting and, via crafting, to in-role performance. No significant mediation of high- and low-arousal positive emotions was found between age and task crafting. However, at the day level of analysis, high-arousal positive emotions are positively related to task crafting, and this in turn is positively related to in-role performance. These findings make important theoretical contributions to understanding within-person processes associated with employee age in addition to more traditional between-person factors. They also have implications for managing an age-diverse workforce by means of job crafting.

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Section: Age and Task Craftingmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Age on Daily Positive Emotions and Work Behaviors

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Zaniboni

et al. 2020

Work, Aging and Retirement

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How different forms of job crafting relate to job satisfaction: The role of person-job fit and age

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Weng

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An Analysis of the Multidimensional Structure of Job Crafting for Older Workers With a Managerial Role

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Perinelli

Demerouti

et al. 2021

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Job crafting has often been conceptualized as a higher-order construct composed of 3 dimensions: seeking resources, seeking challenges, and reducing demands. However, recent advances in job crafting studies have questioned the composition of its multidimensional structure. Furthermore, job crafting has been widely studied in age-diverse samples of workers, but not properly studied among older workers. In this article, we investigate the multidimensional structure of job crafting in 2 samples of older workers with a managerial role. In Study 1, in a cross-sectional sample (1,020 school superintendents, Mage = 57.27, SDage = 5.15) using a series of competing factorial analytic models (CFA, ESEM, bifactor-CFA, bifactor-ESEM), we demonstrated that reducing demands did not show significant relationships with the other 2 dimensions (at both the item and latent levels). In Study 2, a longitudinal study (350 school superintendents, Mage = 56.54, SDage = 5.11, Wave = 2, lag = 10 months), we further supported the structural results obtained in Study 1; furthermore, using a factorial cross-lagged panel model with 2 widely-accepted correlated constructs of job crafting (i.e., work engagement and emotional exhaustion), we again supported the independent nature of the reducing demands dimension, and we also showed the importance of seeking challenges. Indeed, the latter was a significant longitudinal predictor of work engagement, while all the other cross-lagged relationships were nonsignificant. Overall, our studies pose new questions about the structure of job crafting in older-worker populations.

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The Effects of Age on Job Crafting: Exploring the Motivations and Behavior of Younger and Older Employees in Job Crafting

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

The Effect of Age on Daily Positive Emotions and Work Behaviors

The Effect of Age on Daily Positive Emotions and Work Behaviors

How different forms of job crafting relate to job satisfaction: The role of person-job fit and age

An Analysis of the Multidimensional Structure of Job Crafting for Older Workers With a Managerial Role

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