Holman, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-8331-8281, Escaffi‐Schwarz, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-8739, Vasquez, C.A. orcid.org/0000-0002-8144-0854 et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Does job crafting affect employee outcomes via job characteristics? A meta‐analytic test of a key job crafting mechanism. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97 (1). pp. 47-73. ISSN 0963-1798
Abstract
Job crafting refers to the self-initiated work behaviours employees use to change their job characteristics. According to job design theory, these crafting-induced changes in job characteristics should impact employee outcomes. Job characteristics can therefore be proposed as a key mechanism through which job crafting affects employee outcomes and we present cross-sectional meta-analytic structural equation modelling of this key mechanism (K = 58 independent samples, N = 20,347 employees). Results show significant indirect effects between task resource crafting and employee outcomes (well-being and positive job attitudes) via task resources, and significant indirect effects between social job crafting and employee outcomes (well-being and positive job attitudes) via social resources. Results also indicated that challenge and hindrance demand crafting increase job strain via increases in job demand. Overall, our findings indicate that job characteristics are an important job crafting mechanism, that employees may have difficulty in crafting job demands in ways that produce beneficial outcomes, and that future research needs to consider simultaneously the range of mechanisms through which job crafting affects outcomes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Keywords: | job characteristics; job crafting; meta-analysis; performance; strain; well-being |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2023 13:45 |
Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 11:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/joop.12450 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200913 |
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