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Work Engagement and Job Crafting

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2020) | Viewed by 34361

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Prof. Dr. Won-Moo Hur

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College of Business Administration, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea
Interests: CSR; sustainable employee management; emotional labor; job crafting; workplace incivility; ESM studies
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Prof. Dr. Yuhyung Shin

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School of Business, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
Interests: sustainable employee managemment; job crafting; team processes and performance; occupational health
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in science and technology have brought dramatic changes in the nature of today’s jobs. As employees’ job security is threatened by automation, robots, and artificial intelligence, motivating employees to remain engaged in their jobs has become a challenging but critical issue for many organizations. In line with this trend, scholars highlight the role of employee-initiated work interventions (e.g., job crafting) as a crucial means to create and maintain an engaged workforce in a fast-changing environment. The Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Work Engagement and Job Crafting”, offers an opportunity to publish empirical research on work engagement and job crafting. We welcome high-quality research related to work engagement and job crafting. Examples of topics suitable for this Special Issue are performance, relational, and health-related outcomes of work engagement and job crafting; organizational and job characteristics fostering or hindering work engagement and job crafting; and multilevel processes involving work engagement and job crafting. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, and would be due in March 2020. The guest editors of this Special Issue are Won-Moo Hur and Yuhyung Shin.

Prof. Won-Moo Hur
Prof. Yuhyung Shin
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Keywords

  • work engagement
  • job crafting
  • organizational characteristics
  • job characteristics
  • in-role and out-role performances
  • employee relations
  • health-related outcomes
  • lognitudinal analysis
  • multilevel analysis
  • novel mediator or moderator of job crafting

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The Potential Importance of Social Capital and Job Crafting for Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction among Health-Care Employees
by Göran Jutengren, Ellen Jaldestad, Lotta Dellve and Andrea Eriksson
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(12), 4272; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124272 - 15 Jun 2020
Cited by 38 | Viewed by 5862
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(1) Background: Both employees and organizations benefit from a work environment characterized by work engagement and job satisfaction. This study examines the influence of work-group social capital on individuals’ work engagement, job satisfaction, and job crafting. In addition, the mediating effect of job [...] Read more.
(1) Background: Both employees and organizations benefit from a work environment characterized by work engagement and job satisfaction. This study examines the influence of work-group social capital on individuals’ work engagement, job satisfaction, and job crafting. In addition, the mediating effect of job crafting between social capital on the one side and job satisfaction and work engagement on the other side was analyzed. (2) Methods: This study used data from 250 health-care employees in Sweden who had completed a questionnaire at two time points (six to eight months apart). Analyses of separate cross-lagged panel designs were conducted using structural regression modeling with manifest variables. (3) Results: Social capital was predictive of both job satisfaction and work engagement over time. The results also indicated that higher degrees of social capital was predictive of more cognitive and relational, but not task-related job crafting over time. There was no clear evidence for a mediating effect of job crafting for social capital to work engagement or job satisfaction. (4) Conclusion: It would be beneficial for the health-care sector to consider setting up the organizations to promote social capital within work groups. Individual workers would gain in well-being and the organization is likely to gain in efficiency and lower turnover rates. Full article
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How Managers’ Job Crafting Reduces Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Role Ambiguity and Emotional Exhaustion
by Yuhyung Shin, Won-Moo Hur, Kyungdo Park and Hansol Hwang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(11), 3972; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113972 - 3 Jun 2020
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Despite the increasing body of research on job crafting, the relationship between managers’ job crafting and their turnover intention, as well as its intermediary mechanisms, has received relatively little attention from researchers. This study examined how managers’ job crafting negatively affected their turnover [...] Read more.
Despite the increasing body of research on job crafting, the relationship between managers’ job crafting and their turnover intention, as well as its intermediary mechanisms, has received relatively little attention from researchers. This study examined how managers’ job crafting negatively affected their turnover intention, focusing on role ambiguity and emotional exhaustion as underlying mediators. Data were collected from 235 store managers in South Korean food franchises. All study hypotheses were supported by regression-based path modeling. Controlling for role conflict and role ambiguity, we found a negative relationship between job crafting and role ambiguity, a positive relationship between role ambiguity and emotional exhaustion, and a positive relationship between emotional exhaustion and turnover intention. Our mediation analyses further revealed that controlling for role conflict and role overload, role ambiguity and emotional exhaustion partially and sequentially mediated the relationship between managers’ job crafting and their turnover intention. These findings have several implications for theory and practice. Full article
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Daily Job Crafting Helps Those Who Help Themselves More: The Moderating Role of Job Autonomy and Leader Support
by Sung Hyoun Hong, Nayoung Kwon and Min Soo Kim
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(6), 2045; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062045 - 19 Mar 2020
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Not all members are engaged in job crafting behavior in the same context, yet little research has addressed boundary conditions of daily job crafting. This study addresses these important issues and how the effects of daily job crafting vary depending on the work [...] Read more.
Not all members are engaged in job crafting behavior in the same context, yet little research has addressed boundary conditions of daily job crafting. This study addresses these important issues and how the effects of daily job crafting vary depending on the work situation. We consider job autonomy and leader support as between-person level moderators and reveal how it affects the impact of daily job crafting on daily job satisfaction. Through the experience of the sampling method, we collected 946 days of data from 108 members (61.9% were male and 38.1% were female) for hypothesis testing. The analysis of results showed that the main effect of daily job crafting and the cross-level moderating effect of leader support were significant, and the moderating effect of job autonomy was not significant. In particular, the positive effect of daily job crafting on daily job satisfaction was strengthened for members with low leader support. These findings highlight that leader support is an important social context in job crafting, and provides insights when members can get more advantages from their daily job crafting. Full article
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A Cross-Level Investigation of Team-Member Exchange on Team and Individual Job Crafting with the Moderating Effect of Regulatory Focus
by Tsang-Kai Hung, Chih-Hung Wang, Mu Tian and Ya-Jiun Yang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(6), 2044; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062044 - 19 Mar 2020
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Within the framework of regulatory focus theory, this study examines the issues of job crafting. This study adopts purposive sampling as a means to collect data. A total of 123 teams with 514 members were invited to participate in the survey, and 91 [...] Read more.
Within the framework of regulatory focus theory, this study examines the issues of job crafting. This study adopts purposive sampling as a means to collect data. A total of 123 teams with 514 members were invited to participate in the survey, and 91 teams with 354 members provided valid questionnaire responses for data analysis. Mplus 7.0 was applied to conduct data analysis and verification. Data analysis demonstrates that (1) team-member exchange (TMX) exerts a positive influence on team job crafting and individual job crafting; (2) team job crafting positively affects individual job crafting; (3) TMX can positively affect individual job crafting via team job crafting; and (4) a prevention focus has a moderated mediation effect on the indirect relationship between TMX and individual job crafting. Based on its findings, this study has both practical and theoretical implications. Academically, it can be regarded as a pioneering academic endeavor. Practically, this study can enhance teamwork, postulate job flow, and promote the quality of member relationships, thus boosting individual job crafting performance. Full article
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The High-Performance Work System, Employee Voice, and Innovative Behavior: The Moderating Role of Psychological Safety
by Rentao Miao, Lu Lu, Yi Cao and Qing Du
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(4), 1150; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041150 - 12 Feb 2020
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In this study, we examined the associations of the high-performance work system (HPWS) with employee innovative behavior, and tested a theoretical model in which these associations were mediated by employee voice (promotive and prohibitive voice) and moderated by psychological safety. Matched data were [...] Read more.
In this study, we examined the associations of the high-performance work system (HPWS) with employee innovative behavior, and tested a theoretical model in which these associations were mediated by employee voice (promotive and prohibitive voice) and moderated by psychological safety. Matched data were collected from 46 HR (Human Resource) managers and 374 full-time employees from 46 companies in China with multi-source and time-lagged techniques. We found that the HPWS is associated with employee behavior. Both the promotive voice and prohibitive voice partially mediate the relationship between HPWS and employee innovative behavior. Psychological safety moderates the relationship between HPWS and the promotive voice. However, psychological safety does not moderate the relationship between HPWS and the prohibitive voice. Furthermore, psychological safety moderates the mediation effect of the promotive voice between HPWS and employee innovative behavior. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings. Full article
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The Effect of the Congruence between Job Characteristics and Personality on Job Crafting
by Mihee Kim, Seung Ik Baek and Yuhyung Shin
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(1), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010052 - 19 Dec 2019
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This study examined the effect of the fit between personality (i.e., openness to experience) and core job characteristics (i.e., skill variety, task significance, and task identity) on job crafting. We collected survey data from 200 college students who were assigned a team project [...] Read more.
This study examined the effect of the fit between personality (i.e., openness to experience) and core job characteristics (i.e., skill variety, task significance, and task identity) on job crafting. We collected survey data from 200 college students who were assigned a team project during the semester. Using polynomial regression analysis, we tested the effects of the fit between personality and job characteristics on job crafting. The results revealed that a high level of openness to experience was significantly associated with a high level of job crafting (i.e., task, relational, and cognitive crafting). Furthermore, when both openness to experience and job characteristics were congruent at a high level, the tendency to proactively perform one’s tasks was also high. These findings enhance our understanding of the effect of the fit between openness to experience and three core job characteristics on job crafting. Full article
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