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Resource Crafting: Is It Really 'Resource' Crafting-Or Just Crafting?
Qiao Hu1, Wilmar B Schaufeli2,3, Toon W Taris2
1School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|April 6, 2019
Summary
Job crafting, a proactive employee behavior, is enhanced by job resources. Both individual and team job crafting positively influence employee work engagement, particularly in healthcare settings.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Behavior
- Occupational Health Psychology
Background:
- Job crafting involves employees proactively shaping their work to align with their strengths and interests.
- Conservation of Resources (COR) theory posits that individuals strive to obtain and maintain resources.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the combined effects of individual and team-level job crafting on employee work engagement.
- To examine the role of job-related resources as antecedents to job crafting behaviors.
Main Methods:
- Data collected from 287 medical professionals across 21 hospital units.
- Two-level Bayesian structural equation modeling was employed for analysis.
Main Results:
- Individual job crafting partially mediated the link between individual resources and engagement.
- Collective job crafting mediated the relationship between team resources and individual engagement.
- A positive cross-level relationship was observed between collective and individual job crafting.
Conclusions:
- Job crafting, at both individual and team levels, is a significant driver of employee work engagement.
- Job-related resources are crucial for fostering job crafting behaviors.
- Findings highlight the importance of resource availability for promoting proactive work design and engagement in healthcare professionals.