The Crafting of Jobs and Individual Differences

By Paul Lyons. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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Job crafting : towards a new model of individual job redesign : original research (2010, background): “A study by Lyons (2008) demonstrated that job crafting does take place at work and usually without the knowledge of supervisors.”
Job crafting and extra-role behavior: The role of work engagement and flourishing (2015, background): “181) define job crafting as “everyday” behavior, Lyons (2008) found that on average only 1.”
Crafting the Change: The Role of Employee Job Crafting Behaviors for Successful Organizational Change (2018, background): “Unlike other existing definitions of job crafting that have been reported by employees to occur one to two times per year (e.g., Lyons, 2008), the conceptualization that we use is reported as a daily employee behavior during organizational change (Petrou et al.).”
Optimising Employee Mental Health: The Relationship Between Intrinsic Need Satisfaction, Job Crafting, and Employee Well-Being (2013, background): “Most of the research on job crafting to date has been qualitative or theoretical in nature (e.g., Berg et al. 2010a, b; Fried et al. 2007; Lyons 2008; Wrzesniewski and Dutton 2001).”
Job crafting and meaningful work. (2013, background): “In a study of salespersons, Lyons (2008) found that employees’ cognitive ability, quality of self-image, perceived level of control, and readiness to change all predicted the extent to which they engaged in job crafting, such that employees who rated higher in these measures engaged in more job…”
Coworker support as a double-edged sword: a moderated mediation model of job crafting, work engagement, and job performance (2020, background): “This is in line with prior findings that underscore the pivotal role of job crafting in the performance of service employees (e.g. Leana et al., 2009; Lin et al., 2017; Lyons, 2008).”
Job Crafting at the Team and Individual Level (2013, background): “Recent studies have indeed shown that employees take the initiative to craft certain characteristics of their job (Berg, Wrzesniewski, & Dutton, 2010; Lyons, 2008).”
Does work engagement increase person–job fit? The role of job crafting and job insecurity (2014, background): “Second, one suggestion for future studies is to extend the possible individual characteristics that affect the work engagement–fit perception relationship, such as individual perceived control (Lyons, 2008).”
Proactivity, job characteristics, and engagement: a longitudinal study (2010, methodology): “In the JD-R model and other work-stress models, employees are generally portrayed as passive receivers of their work environment, but more recent fundamental and empirical research points to the active role employees can take in shaping or crafting their own environment (Frese et al., 2007; de Lange”
Job crafting and job performance: A longitudinal study (2015, background): “From qualitative interview studies (Berg et al., 2010; Lyons, 2008) as well as quantitative survey studies (Bakker, Tims, et al.”
The value of job crafting for work engagement, task performance, and career satisfaction: longitudinal and quasi-experimental evidence (2019, background): “Step 1: Concrete experiences ● Providing real-life examples from interviews conducted with employees ● Every employee has at least some experience with job crafting (Lyons, 2008) by doing a Situated Learning Narratives (SELN; Benner, 1984) exercise, we encouraged people to think about positive past ”
The job crafting questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting (2013, background): “…or theoretical in nature (e.g., Berg, Grant, & Johnson, 2010; Berg, Wrzesniewski, & Dutton, 2010; Fried, Grant, Levi, Hadani & Slowik, 2007; Lyons, 2008; Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001) and there remains an important need to assess empirically the relationships between job crafting and other…”
Development and validation of the job crafting scale (2012, background): “Lyons (2008) noticed that all examples used to illustrate job crafting behaviors had beneficial effects on the organization aswell.”
Perceiving and responding to challenges in job crafting at different ranks: When proactivity requires adaptivity (2010, background): “among child care educators (Leana, Appelbaum, & Shevchuk, in press), special education teachers (Ghitulescu, 2007), nurse midwives (Caza, 2008), and salespersons (Lyons, 2008).”
On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review (2010, background): “…meaning from the characteristics of their jobs, but instead proactively design (or redesign) the task and relational boundaries of their jobs in order to shape the meaning of their work (Berg, Wrzesniewski, et al., 2010; Leana, Appelbaum, & Shevchuk, 2009; Lyons, 2008; Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001).”
Proactive personality and job performance: The role of job crafting and work engagement (2012, background): “For example, Lyons (2008) found that the salespersons in his study engaged in self-initiated skill development.”