The influence of future time perspective on work engagement and job performance: the role of job crafting

By D. Kooij, M. Tims, Jos Akkermans. 2017

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ABSTRACT This two-wave study aimed to examine future time perspective (FTP) as an antecedent of job crafting, and in turn job crafting as a mediator in associations between FTP and work outcomes. Based on the lifespan socio-emotional selectivity theory, we expected that open-ended and limited FTP would evoke different forms of job crafting, which in turn would be associated with changes in work engagement and job performance. In line with our expectations, we found that employees whose open-ended FTP increased over a 1-year time period also crafted more job resources and challenging job demands such that their job provided them with more opportunities for knowledge acquisition, which in turn resulted in increased levels of work engagement and job performance. However, contrary to our expectations, employees whose limited FTP increased over the 1-year time period did not proactively reduce their hindering job demands. Hence, although crafting fewer hindering job demands was directly related to decreased levels of work outcomes as expected, we found no indirect effect of changes in limited FTP on changes in work engagement and performance via changes in this job crafting behaviour. These findings have important implications for the literature on job crafting and FTP.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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How coworkers attribute, react to, and shape job crafting (2019, background): “Moreover, as studies have shown that job crafting can sometimes result in negative outcomes for the initiator of crafting, such as lower work-related well-being (Bruning & Campion, 2018; Kooij et al., 2017), we argue that taking coworkers into account may help explain these mixed outcomes.”
Job Crafting and Performance: Literature Review and Implications for Human Resource Development (2018, background): “…increasing social job resources, increasing challenging job demands, and decreasing hindering job demands were positively related to in-role and extra-role performance (e.g., Chinelato et al., 2015; Kooij et al., 2017; Mäkikangas et al., 2016; Tims, Bakker, & Derks, 2012; Tims et al., 2015).”