I believe I can craft! introducing Job Crafting Self-Efficacy Scale (JCSES)

Abstract

Job crafting is beneficial for employees and organizations. To better predict these behaviors, we introduce the concept of job crafting self-efficacy (JCSE) and define it as an individual's beliefs about their capability to modify the demands and resources of their job to better fit their needs. This article describes the development and validation of a scale to measure JCSE. We conducted a qualitative study to design and four quantitative studies to test the psychometric properties of this scale among Polish and American employees in both paperand-pencil and online versions. Three independent (N 1 = 364; N 2 = 432; N 3 = 403) confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated a good fit to a 3-factor solution comprising JCSE beliefs about increasing (a) structural job resources, (b) social job resources, and (c) challenging job demands. The 9-item JCSE Scale had good internal consistency, high time stability, and good validity. It correlated positively with general self-efficacy. JCSE explained unique variance in job crafting behaviors over and above general self-efficacy, and was more important in predicting job crafting than contextual factors. We demonstrate the role of social cognitions in shaping job redesign behaviors and provide a useful tool to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions dedicated to empowering JCSE.

A new perspective on balancing life domains: work–nonwork balance crafting

“…Cultural practice [ 28 ], task and social context [ 83 ] and crafting orientation towards avoidance or approach [ 23 ] might be considered in future research. Since crafting is an individual-level proactive behaviour, a better understanding of variables that can drive and motivate WNBC, such as self-efficacy [ 100 ], is of high interest for future research.…”

Evaluating Need Crafting: Scale Validation and Workplace Implications

“…Including awareness as part of the process may lead to confusion between causes and effects. Moreover, awareness might coincide with or come before a person's confidence in their crafting abilities, a key factor for acting [72]. Thus, we suggest that future studies explore how awareness and action related to need crafting occur in sequence rather than simultaneously.…”

Examining Nonlinear Effects of Crafting Social Resources on Work Engagement – the Moderating Role of Exhaustion

“…First, job crafting competencies describes a set of knowledge, skills, and abilities to craft one's job to fulfill personal motives and needs (Bruning & Campion, 2022) such that a high level of crafting social resources may also mean to have specific capabilities to use different patterns of relevant information and skills (Bruning & Campion, 2022) for crafting social resources. Second, job crafting self-efficacy which refers to individual's beliefs about the own capabilities to alter job demands and job resources to better fit with needs and preferences (Roczniewska et al, 2020). A high level of job crafting self-efficacy means that employees have the control to implement crafting social resources successfully.…”