Job Crafting and Why People Do It

Job crafting refers to how workers redesign their work to bring satisfaction, engagement and resilience. It can be done through relational, task and cognitive crafting. People do job crafting to understand the job needs, invest their strength effectively, become more committed and satisfied with their job, and alternate within the roles of the job effectively.

Job crafting and why people do it.

What is job crafting?
• It refers to how cognitively, physically and socially the workers
reframe what they do in their field of employment(Amy
Wrzesniewski and Jane Dutton,2001: p.3).
• The redesigning of the work to bring satisfaction, engagement
and resilience(Kooij, Tims and Kanfer, 2015:p.150).
• Regardless of the content of the job, the employee divides the
number of task, time of working according to the description
of the job(Niessen, Weseler and Kostova,2016: p.1290).

Ways of crafting job
• Relational crafting
• Task crafting
• Cognitive crafting

Why do people do job crafting?
• It assist the individual to understand what the
job needs.
• The workers invest their strength effectively
after job crafting(Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane
Dutton, 2001:p.5 ).
• It makes one more committed and satisfied
with his or her job.
• It enables one to alternate within the roles of
the job effectively.

References
• Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane E. Dutton,
Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as
Active Crafters of Their Source: The
Academy of Management Review, Vol. 26,
No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 179-201, Published
by: Academy of Management Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/259118

References
• Kooij, D.T., Tims, M. and Kanfer, R., 2015.
Successful aging at work: The role of job
crafting. In Aging workers and the employee-
employer relationship (pp. 145-161). Springer,
Cham.
• Niessen, C., Weseler, D. and Kostova, P., 2016.
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