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Modelling job crafting behaviours

Implications for work engagement

Bibliographic Data

ID9889149
AuthorsArnold B Bakker (0000-0003-1489-1847, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China, corresponding author), Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Alfredo Rodríguez‐Muñoz (0000-0002-9417-3687, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author), Ana Isabel Sanz Vergel (Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK,, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume69
Issue1
Pages169-189
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0018726715581690
OpenAlexW2245767653
LanguageEN
Citations received44
References cited54

In this study among 206 employees (103 dyads), we followed the job demands–resources approach of job crafting to investigate whether proactively changing one’s work environment influences employee’s (actor’s) own and colleague’s (partner’s) work engagement. Using social cognitive theory, we hypothesized that employees would imitate each other’s job crafting behaviours, and therefore influence each other’s work engagement. Results showed that the crafting of social and structural job resources and the crafting of challenge job demands was positively related to own work engagement, whereas decreasing hindrance job demands was unrelated to own engagement. As predicted, results showed a reciprocal relationship between dyad members’ job crafting behaviours – each of the actor’s job crafting behaviours was positively related to the partner’s job crafting behaviours. Finally, employee’s job crafting was related to colleague’s work engagement through colleague’s job crafting, suggesting a modelling process

Dyad · Job attitude · Job characteristic theory · Job design · Job performance · Job satisfaction · Work (physics · Work engagement · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty · Emotional Labor in Professions · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology

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