TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling job crafting behaviours : implications for work engagement
AU - BAKKER, Arnold B.
AU - RODRÍGUEZ-MUÑOZ, Alfredo
AU - SANZ VERGEL, Ana Isabel
PY - 2016/1
Y1 - 2016/1
N2 - In this study among 206 employees (103 dyads), we followed the job demands–resources approach of job crafting to investigate whether proactively changing one’s work environment influences employee’s (actor’s) own and colleague’s (partner’s) work engagement. Using social cognitive theory, we hypothesized that employees would imitate each other’s job crafting behaviours, and therefore influence each other’s work engagement. Results showed that the crafting of social and structural job resources and the crafting of challenge job demands was positively related to own work engagement, whereas decreasing hindrance job demands was unrelated to own engagement. As predicted, results showed a reciprocal relationship between dyad members’ job crafting behaviours – each of the actor’s job crafting behaviours was positively related to the partner’s job crafting behaviours. Finally, employee’s job crafting was related to colleague’s work engagement through colleague’s job crafting, suggesting a modelling process.
AB - In this study among 206 employees (103 dyads), we followed the job demands–resources approach of job crafting to investigate whether proactively changing one’s work environment influences employee’s (actor’s) own and colleague’s (partner’s) work engagement. Using social cognitive theory, we hypothesized that employees would imitate each other’s job crafting behaviours, and therefore influence each other’s work engagement. Results showed that the crafting of social and structural job resources and the crafting of challenge job demands was positively related to own work engagement, whereas decreasing hindrance job demands was unrelated to own engagement. As predicted, results showed a reciprocal relationship between dyad members’ job crafting behaviours – each of the actor’s job crafting behaviours was positively related to the partner’s job crafting behaviours. Finally, employee’s job crafting was related to colleague’s work engagement through colleague’s job crafting, suggesting a modelling process.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6778
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953210547&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0018726715581690
DO - 10.1177/0018726715581690
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0018-7267
VL - 69
SP - 169
EP - 189
JO - Human Relations
JF - Human Relations
IS - 1
ER -