Job crafting embedded in social contexts: A new perspective on job crafting

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology Subjects: Management Science >> Development and Management of Human Resources submitted time 2021-11-10

林新月 孟亮

Abstract： Job crafting is a situational proactive behavior. Based on existing research findings on job crafting, four research perspectives on the intricate relationships between job crafting and social contexts are systematically summarized (i.e., social contexts as targets of job crafting, social contexts being involved in job crafting, social contexts as antecedents of individual job crafting, social context as moderators of job crafting). In addition, mechanisms underlying effects of social contexts on job crafting, interactions of social contexts and individual characteristics on job crafting, as well as the effectiveness of job crafting in specific contexts are proposed and discussed. Incorporating research on other related constructs and variables, prospects for future research on job crafting embedded in social contexts are proposed, which include examining the influence of job crafting on coworkers, exploring the multiple paths through which team job crafting drives individual job crafting, discovering the internal mechanism underlying the influence of social contexts on job crafting, investigating interactions of social contexts and individual characteristics on job crafting, and testing the effectiveness of job crafting under the Chinese social context. "

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