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  • Occupational Health Psychology
  • Medical Education
  • Human Resources Management

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  • Physicians face demanding work contexts that can impact their employability, defined as their ability and willingness to continue working.
  • Proactive management of working life, including job crafting behaviors, is crucial for maintaining physician employability.
  • Interventions are needed to support physicians in managing their careers and sustaining their capacity to work.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of a personalized feedback report intervention on physicians' employability and job crafting behaviors.
  • To assess whether personalized feedback enhances physicians' ability and willingness to continue working.
  • To determine if the intervention influences job crafting behaviors among physicians.

Main Methods:

  • A randomized controlled trial involving 165 physicians from two Dutch hospitals.
  • Participants were assigned to either an intervention group receiving a personalized feedback report or a waitlist control group.
  • Employability and job crafting behaviors were measured using pre-test and post-test assessments over eight weeks.

Main Results:

  • The intervention group showed enhanced perceptions of their mental and physical ability to continue working (p < 0.05 and p < 0.001, respectively).
  • No significant effect was observed on physicians' willingness to continue working.
  • Job crafting behaviors increased significantly over time, but this increase was not directly attributable to the personalized feedback report.

Conclusions:

  • Personalized feedback reports represent a low-investment intervention that can positively influence physicians' perceived ability to continue working.
  • The intervention may stimulate employee proactivity and enhance organizational support for sustained work capacity.
  • While not directly increasing job crafting, the feedback report offers a novel, resource-efficient approach to supporting physician employability.