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Judith Plomp1, Maria Tims1, Svetlana N Khapova1
1School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Frontiers in Psychology
|May 24, 2019
Summary
Psychological safety enhances job crafting and employability for permanent workers by increasing challenging demands. For temporary agency workers, it boosts employability through structural job resources, with a negative association with crafting hindrances.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Human Resource Management
Background:
- Employability is a key challenge in modern organizations.
- Job crafting positively impacts general employee employability.
- Limited research exists on job crafting's effects across different employment contract types.
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate job crafting and employability among temporary and permanent workers within psychological safety.
- Differentiate the influence of psychological safety on job crafting strategies for each group.
- Examine the relationship between job crafting and perceived employability for both worker types.
Main Methods:
- Collected data from two distinct samples: temporary agency workers (N=527) and permanent employees (N=796).
- Employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the relationships between variables.
- Assessed job crafting dimensions, perceived employability, and psychological safety.
Main Results:
- Permanent employees: Increased challenging job demands positively correlated with employability; decreased hindering job demands negatively correlated.
- Psychological safety positively influenced all job crafting dimensions for permanent employees.
- Temporary agency workers: Increased structural job resources positively related to employability; psychological safety negatively associated with crafting hindrances.
Conclusions:
- Psychological safety is particularly effective for permanent employees in promoting job crafting and enhancing employability.
- Job crafting strategies and their link to employability differ significantly between temporary and permanent workers.
- Organizational strategies should consider employment contract differences when fostering job crafting and employability.
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