Perceiving and responding to challenges in job crafting at different ranks: When proactivity requires adaptivity

By Justin M. Berg, Amy Wrzesniewski, Jane E. Dutton. 2010

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Job crafting and meaningful work. (2013, background): “Third, although some research has linked job crafting with particular outcomes related to performance and perceptions of the work (e.g., Berg et al., 2010a; Leana et al., 2009), there seems to be a need for more theory and research that link specific forms of crafting to particular individual and…”
Reactive Adjustment or Proactive Embedding? Multistudy, Multiwave Evidence for Dual Pathways to Expatriate Retention (2014, background): “Although proactive tactics are typically considered as a means of offering greater agency to newcomers in the socialization literature, they represent behaviors that every employee can engage in to alter work meanings and work identity in their jobs (Berg et al., 2010), and they will arise particula”
Redesigning work through idiosyncratic deals (2014, background): “However, some work characteristics that have been empirically classified as challenge demands, such as time urgency, are unlikely to be sought out directly or for their own sake, but may rather be a side effect of taking over greater responsibilities or more complex tasks (Berg et al., 2010; Tims et”
The future of organizational interventions: Addressing the challenges of today's organizations (2010, background): “In other areas of organizational and occupational psychology there is an increasing awareness that employees actively craft their own jobs through their daily work practices (Berg, Wrzesniewski, & Dutton, 2010 ; Feij, Peiro, Whitely, & Taris, 1995 ; Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001 ).”
How employees’ pro-activity translates high-commitment HRM systems into work engagement: the mediating role of job crafting (2018, background): “Indeed, Berg, Wrzesniewski, and Dutton (2010) showed that employees were only engaged in pro-actively acquiring new skills to a limited extent when they were not provided with sufficient training opportunities.”
Protean Careers at Work: Self-Direction and Values Orientation in Psychological Success (2018, background): “Examples of evidence-based interventions include use of interest assessments, job crafting (Akkermans & Tims 2017, Berg et al. 2010), and reflection/journaling activities exploring one’s future work self (Taber & Blankemeyer 2015)—interventions that have been found to predict protean career…”
Making Change Happen (2013, result): “This finding is consistent with those of Berg et al. (2010), who argued that one’s relative invisibility in the social system of the organization endows people with a greater sense of freedom to be adaptive.”
Transformational leadership, adaptability, and job crafting:the moderating role of organizational identification. (2017, background): “However, employees may feel that they don't have the power to do that (Berg, Wrzesniewski, & Dutton, 2010).”