Job Crafting: Examining the Role of Job Crafting in the Workplace

This report delves into the concept of job crafting, a proactive approach where employees reshape their roles to enhance satisfaction, engagement, and resilience. It examines the core principles of job crafting, including cognitive, task, and relational crafting, highlighting how individuals can redefine their work to align with their strengths and preferences. The report emphasizes the importance of job crafting in boosting employee commitment and the ability to effectively navigate job roles. It also references key studies and provides insights into the practical application of job crafting strategies in various workplace settings, aiming to improve both individual and organizational outcomes. The report includes references to scholarly articles that support the arguments made within the assignment. The report gives an overview of job crafting, including its definition, why it is done, and how it impacts the workplace.

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.
When and why do individuals craft their jobs?
The role of individual motivation and work
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