Job Crafting

Relational crafting

Changing the nature/extent of one's interactions w other ppl

How can organizations facilitate or encourage job crafting

conversations with managers?

Job crafting

employees actively changing their formal job designs to better fit their motives, strengths, and passions resourcefully using and altering elements of a job to make work more engaging and fulfilling

benefits of job crafting

increase meaningfulness, increased job satisfaction, motivation, and performance

Task crafting

taking on more/fewer tasks, expanding/diminishing the scope of tasks, changing how one performs tasks

main difference between job crafting and job design

How job is performed & experienced Job design) top-down, one-size fits all Job crafting) bottom-up, customized

three types of job crafting

Task crafting Relational crafting Cognitive crafting

Cognitive crafting

altering how one perceives task / thinking abt the tasks involved in one's job as a collective whole <--> set of separate tasks