How can organizations foster job crafting behaviors and thriving at work?
- 2 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Management & Organization
- Vol. 27 (4), 1-18
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2020.31
Abstract
This study investigates whether the perceived opportunity to craft (POC) is related to job crafting (JC) strategies and whether these strategies are related to thriving at work, in terms of both vitality and learning. It aims to verify the mediating role of JC between POC and thriving. Data were collected from 424 accounting professionals in Canada. The structural equation modeling based on bootstrap analysis was used to test mediation. The results indicate that POC is positively related to increasing structural and social resources and challenging job demands and negatively to decreasing hindering job demands. They reveal that increasing structural and social resources enhances learning and mediates the relation between POC and vitality and learning, as do challenging job demands, whereas decreasing hindering job demands does not. This study is one of the first to confirm that POC influences vitality and learning via JC behaviors as mediators.Keywords
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