Can job crafting reduce job boredom and increase work engagement? A three-year cross-lagged panel study.

Autor/inn/en	Harju, Lotta K.; Hakanen, Jari J.; Schaufeli, Wilmar B.
Titel	Can job crafting reduce job boredom and increase work engagement? A three-year cross-lagged panel study. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kann Job Crafting Langeweile bei der Arbeit reduzieren und die Arbeitsmotivation fördern? Ein Cross-Lagged-Panel über drei Jahre.
Quelle	In: Journal of vocational behavior, (2016) 95/96, S. 11-20Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791; 1095-9084
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2016.07.001
Schlagwörter	Anpassung; Motivationsförderung; Zufriedenheit; Arbeitsanforderung; Arbeit; Arbeitsgestaltung; Arbeitsmotivation; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Optimierung; Hochschulabsolvent; Hoch Qualifizierter; Finnland
Abstract	"Building upon the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this longitudinal study examined whether job crafting behaviors (i.e. increasing structural and social job resources and increasing challenges) predict less job boredom and more work engagement. We also tested the reverse causation effects of job boredom and work engagement on job crafting and the dynamics between the three job crafting behaviors over time. We employed a two-wave, three-year panel design and included 1630 highly educated Finnish employees from a broad spectrum of occupations in various organizations. Our results indicated that seeking challenges in particular negatively predicted job boredom and positively predicted work engagement. Seeking challenges fueled other job crafting behaviors, which, in their turn, predicted seeking more challenges over time, thus supporting the accumulation of resources. Job boredom negatively predicted increasing structural resources, whereas work engagement positively predicted increasing both structural and social resources. These findings suggest that seeking challenges at work enhances employee work engagement, prevents job boredom, and generates other job crafting behaviors. Conversely, job boredom seems to impede job crafting." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/1