Redesigning Work Design Theories
The Rise of Relational and Proactive Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23327614 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam M Grant (0000-0001-8637-7447, University of Pennsylvania), K Parker (0000-0002-0978-1873, Institute of Social Work) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 317-375 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Academy of Management Annals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1941-6067 • E-ISSN: 1941-6520 |
| Publisher | Academy of Management (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5465/19416520903047327 |
| OpenAlex | W4236171671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 156 |
| References cited | 251 |
Many scholars assume that the fundamental questions about work design have been answered. However, a global shift from manufacturing economies to service and knowledge economies has dramatically altered the nature of work in organizations. To keep pace with these important and rapid changes, work design theory and research is undergoing a transformation. We trace the highlights of two emerging viewpoints on work design: relational perspectives and proactive perspectives. Relational perspectives focus on how jobs, roles, and tasks are more socially embedded than ever before, based on increases in interdependence and interactions with coworkers and service recipients. Proactive perspectives capture the growing importance of employees taking initiative to anticipate and create changes in how work is performed, based on increases in uncertainty and dynamism. Together, these two perspectives challenge the widely held belief that new developments in work design theory and research are no longer needed. Our review charts the central contributions and unanswered questions from these relational and proactive perspectives with the goal of inspiring renewed interest in advancing theory, research, and practice on work design.
Business · Dynamism · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Management science · Pace · Process management · Relational theory · Sociology · Viewpoints · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Construction Project Management and Performance · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
ادرة الحيوية الاستباقية وعلاقتها بالشجاعة الاخلاقية المهنية لدى الاطباء والممرضين العاملين في مستشفيات العزل الصحي لفيروس كوفيد-19
Interactions of Approach and Avoidance Job Crafting and Work Engagement
Psychosocial Work Environment and Teachers’ Psychological Well-Being
Beyond top‐down and bottom‐up work redesign
Job design
Job design in the context of the job market
SHRM and job design
Executive work design
The double-edged sword effect of employee personal initiative behavior on coworker relationships
Psychological Empowerment and Workforce Agility
Work Design
Job Design
Job Design
Job Crafting
Job crafting
One hundred years of work design research
Job crafting revisited
The Ikea effect
Does work engagement increase person–job fit? The role of job crafting and job insecurity
Flourishing via Workplace Relationships
Job Crafting at the Team and Individual Level
How Does the Use of Information Communication Technology Affect Individuals? A Work Design Perspective
Organizations Driving Positive Social Change
Co-constructing a Sense of Community at Work
Burnout
No Employee an Island
Explaining Age Differences in the Motivating Potential of Intergenerational Contact at Work
The Mediating Role of Compassion between Social Job Resources, and Healthy Healthcare Professionals
Transformed knowledge work infrastructures in times of forced remote work
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The Changing Nature of Employee and Labor-Management Relationships
Talent Management
Daily Empowering Leadership and Job Crafting
Persian version of the work design questionnaire
Some Reflections on a Career in Organizational Behavior
How to Increase Employees’ Proactive Vitality Management? Testing the Effect of a Training Intervention
Stimulating Employability and Job Crafting Behaviour of Physicians
The Effects of Routinization on Radical and Incremental Creativity
How Should Job Crafting Interventions Be Implemented to Make Their Effects Last? Protocol for a Group Concept Mapping Study
Is a CSR Policy an Equally Effective Vaccine Against Workplace Mobbing and Psychosocial Stressors
How Can Job Crafting Be Reproduced? Examining the Trickle-Down Effect of Job Crafting from Leaders to Employees
How and When Are Job Crafters Engaged at Work
The boundary mechanism from citizenship pressure to citizenship fatigue
Generative AI adoption and employee outcomes
Family supportive supervisor behavior and work–life balance policy as predictors of employee voice behavior
A mentally healthy framework to guide employers and policy makers
Waiting for the Boss's Blue Checkmark to Appear
How does psychological safety foster employee performance? A serial multiple mediation of job crafting and thriving
On the road to workplace accountability
Participative climate, team job crafting and leaders' job crafting
Dyadic similarity in individual differences
You reap what you sow
Effects of the paradox mindset on work engagement
Protean career orientation, supervisor perceptions and organizational career growth
Echoes of gratitude
How psychological safety influences intention to leave? The mediation roles of networking ability and relational job crafting
A glimpse into employee proactive behavior
Work design and task conflict in interdisciplinary groups
Facing Change With Stability
Job Crafting and Intent to Leave
Career Adaptability
Creating a creative state of mind
Unraveling the black box of job crafting interventions
The initiative paradox
Employees' fear at work, job crafting, and work engagement on a daily basis
A two‐wave study on the effects of cognitive demands of flexible work on cognitive flexibility, work engagement and fatigue
Career proactivity
The Countervailing Effects of Job Crafting on Salesperson Ethical Behaviors
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Why is Crafting the Job Associated with Less Prosocial Reactions and More Social Undermining? The Role of Feelings of Relative Deprivation and Zero-Sum Mindset
Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Job Crafting
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The Big Five Personality and Perception of the Career Barriers of Male Prisoners
Exploring the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting
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Interpersonal skills, role cognitions, and OCB
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The process of reinventing a job
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Peer Influence in the Workplace
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The Effects of Journalists’ Job Perceptions on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment Moderated by Altruism
The Fun damental Role of Workplace Fun in Applicant Attraction
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Too much of a good thing
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Not what it was and not what it will be
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As Seen on Social Media
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A meta-analytic examination of the correlates of the three dimensions of job burnout.
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Burnout in Organizational Life
A Socially Embedded Model of Thriving at Work
The Pygmalion Process and Employee Creativity
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Enhancing role breadth self-efficacy
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The dynamics of proactivity at work
Predicting voice behavior in work groups.
Integrating motivational, social, and contextual work design features
Relations Between Work Group Characteristics and Effectiveness
The Job Demand-Control (-Support) Model and psychological well-being
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I-Deals
Too Much of a Good Thing? Negative Effects of High Trust and Individual Autonomy in Self-Managing Teams.
Stretchwork
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Current issues relating to psychosocial job strain and cardiovascular disease research.
Task complexity
Employee reactions to job characteristics.
The Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ)
Receiving instrumental support at work
Cohesion and Performance in Groups
When Job Dissatisfaction Leads to Creativity
Reflections on the Looking Glass
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Work Groups and Teams
Creative Self-Efficacy
Emotional exhaustion and job performance
Impact and the art of motivation maintenance
Red Tape and Public Service Motivation
The potential paradox of organizational citizenship behavior
Seeing Another Viewpoint
Managing Customer Services
The Effects of Personal and Contextual Characteristics on Creativity
Bringing Work Back In
Social Undermining in the Workplace.
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
Employee Creativity
The Measurement of Job Characteristics.
Role Definitions and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Perceived supervisor support
The social context of undermining behavior at work
The significance of task significance
A New Model of Work Role Performance
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The Validity of the Job Characteristics Model
Perceived organizational support.
Motivation through the design of work
Perceived organizational support
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Job Demands‐Resources model
The job demands-resources model of burnout.
Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.
Work stress and social support
The principles of scientific management
Working Alone
Emotional regulation in the workplace
Emotion work and job stressors and their effects on burnout
Emotional Labor and Burnout
Verbal abuse from outsiders versus insiders
Out on a Limb
The Managed Heart
Why Differences Make a Difference
Differential contributions of majority and minority influence
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization
The effects of feedback interventions on performance
Proactive feedback seeking
Relationship Between Job Characteristics and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
The customer is not always right
Routinization, work characteristics and their relationships with creative and proactive behaviors
The proficiency trap
The employment relationships of foreign workers versus local employees
Promoting felt responsibility for constructive change and proactive behavior
Location, location, location
Increasing coping resources at work
Social support, group consensus and stressor–strain relationships
Affective states in job characteristics theory
The paradox of self-management
Pushing back the frontiers
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Personal projects, life stories, and happiness
That is my job
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Sociotechnical Systems
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| Unique citing works | 156 |
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| Citations per year | 9,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 147 |