Reorienting job crafting research: A hierarchical structure of job crafting concepts and integrative review

By Fangfang Zhang, Sharon K. Parker. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2018

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How coworkers attribute, react to, and shape job crafting (2019, methodology): “Although approach and avoidance crafting can be cognitive in form (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001; Zhang & Parker, 2019), the approach and avoidance behavioral forms of crafting job demands and job resources are the most relevant in this article, given that these changes are the most likely to create…”
The power of empowering leadership: allowing and encouraging followers to take charge of their own jobs (2019, background): “Recent studies show evidence for several categories of job crafting [e.g., empirical article by Bruning and Campion (2018); meta-analysis by Lichtenthaler and Fischbach (2019); review by Zhang and Parker (2019)], but a commonality among them is an approach-avoidance dimension.”
The process of reinventing a job: A meta–synthesis of qualitative job crafting research (2019, methodology): “Consistent with previous literature, our meta-synthesis confirms that avoidance crafting most likely results in negative consequences (Bruning & Campion, 2018; Lichtenthaler & Fischbach, 2018; Rudolph et al., 2017; Zhang & Parker, 2018), such as work intensification, health problems, and turnover.”