Job crafting promotes internal recovery state, especially in jobs that demand self-control: a daily diary design

Shi, Yanwei; She, Zhuang; Ли, Дан; Zhang, Hui; Kuihuan, Niu

doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11915-1

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“…Additionally, other studies refer to the protective function of job crafting for employees’ mental health, e.g. by reducing exhaustion [ 25 , 29 , 30 ]. If the categories are integrated in the JDR model, the blurred work and life domains impact employees as a job demand when WFH, while boundary management and energy resources management can function as strategies to reduce exhaustion.…”

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“…In general, job crafting behavior has been found to be a protective factor for employees’ mental health [ 25 ] due to the reduction of psychological distress [ 22 , 26 ], burnout [ 27 , 28 ], and exhaustion [ 29 , 30 ]. For an overview of the positive outcomes of job crafting on employees’ health and mental health such as effects on well-being, resilience, vitality, reduced fatigue, reduced distress [ 13 , 14 ].…”

Section: Job Demands-resources Model (Jd-r Model) and Job Craftingmentioning

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Working from home during COVID-19: boundary management tactics and energy resources management strategies reported by public service employees in a qualitative study

Seinsche,

Schubin,

Neumann

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Increased working from home has imposed new challenges on public service employees, while also granting opportunities for job crafting. Grounding on the Job Demands-Resources model and Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory this exploratory research aims to investigate the work-nonwork balance of employees one and a half years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the research focus lies on employees’ job crafting strategies to optimize their working from home experience concerning boundary management and energy resource management. Methods Twelve semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with public service employees from different sectors in Germany. The experiences were content analyzed using the software MaxQDA and inductive and deductive categories were derived. Results Boundary management comprised different strategies such as communicative (e.g., negotiating work time), physical (e.g., going to the garden), temporal (e.g., logging off in between the work day) and behavioral (e.g., prioritizing tasks) strategies. The job crafting strategies regarding energy management included preventing exhaustion (e.g. taking breaks), healthy cooking and energy management in case of sickness (e.g. deciding on sick leave). Conclusions This qualitative case study enriches research on job crafting by offering insights on boundary tactics and energy resources management strategies for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results point out different starting points for employees and decision makers, how a work-nonwork balance, energy management and thus employees’ wellbeing may be increased when working from home in the future. Trial registration The study design and methodology were approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Cologne and the study was prospectively registered (Ref No. 21-1417_1).

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Section: Job Demands-resources Model (Jd-r Model) and Job Craftingmentioning

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Working from home during COVID-19: boundary management tactics and energy resources management strategies reported by public service employees in a qualitative study

Seinsche,

Schubin,

Neumann

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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“…While recent diary studies about crafting (i.e., Demerouti et al, 2019; Shi et al, 2021) have contributed to our understanding of day-level crafting and its associations with day-level well-being outcomes, little is known about crafting patterns unfolding over the course of the day.…”

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Crafting and human energy: Needs-based crafting efforts across life domains shape employees’ daily energy trajectories.

Kosenkranius¹,

Rink²,

Weigelt³

et al. 2023

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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We use experience sampling methodology and adopt the integrative needs model of crafting to investigate employees' daily energy trajectories, and to test whether employees' energy can be conserved or increased throughout the day through the proactive behavioral strategy of needs-based crafting. We first examine the daily trajectories of energy and then investigate the role of employees' daily crafting efforts (at work and in their private lives) in managing their energy throughout the day. Finally, we explore the daily within-person trajectories of needs-based crafting. We tested our hypotheses on a sample of 110 employees providing data on four nonconsecutive days (resulting in 2,358 observations nested in 396 days). Continuous growth curve analyses confirmed that energy follows an inverted U-shaped pattern of increasing energy until noon, after which energy steadily decreased until bedtime. However, daily crafting efforts contributed to these change trajectories: On days when employees crafted more than average, their energy was higher, particularly in the morning and afternoon. These positive crafting effects disappeared toward the end of the day, before bedtime. Crafting followed a linear trajectory, increasing over the course of the day, suggesting that it is a proactive strategy people also engage in outside of work. This suggests that domain-spanning needs-based crafting could be an important proactive strategy to maintain higher energy throughout an entire working day, even in the afternoon, when energy normally starts to fall. Our research contributes to our understanding of the nature of energy and of the microdynamic, within-person energy effects of general crafting efforts.

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“…According to the conservation of resources (COR) theory [ 47 ], people have the motivation to obtain, retain and protect resources. Shi and colleagues [ 48 ] showed that employees’ job crafting efforts can help to obtain and protect their resources during the workday which positively predicted their after-work energy levels. During off-job time, less or even no job demands are present and people are able to freely make decisions regarding their off-job time.…”

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Motives for Crafting Work and Leisure: Focus on Opportunities at Work and Psychological Needs as Drivers of Crafting Efforts

Kosenkranius

Rink

Kujanpää

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Employees of all ages can proactively shape their behavior to manage modern work–life challenges more effectively and this is known as crafting. Our goal is to better understand employees’ motives for engaging in crafting efforts in different life domains to fulfil their psychological needs. In a survey study with two measurement waves, we examined whether “focus on opportunities at work” (FoO)—the extent to which employees believe in new goals and opportunities in their occupational future—and psychological needs (i.e., approach and avoidance needs)—predicted crafting efforts at work and outside work (i.e., job and off-job crafting). Our hypotheses were largely confirmed in a study on 346 Finnish workers. Greater FoO led to greater approach needs (i.e., mastery, meaning, affiliation), which in turn explained higher engagement in both job and off-job crafting. Avoidance needs (i.e., detachment, relaxation) resulted in increased crafting efforts in both life domains directly. Our findings underline the importance of FoO for crafting efforts across life domains, and explain why this is the case (i.e., it activates approach-oriented psychological needs). By supporting workers in shifting their focus onto their future opportunities (regardless of their age), organizations can create environments conducive to crafting and ultimately sustainable work lives.

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Job crafting promotes internal recovery state, especially in jobs that demand self-control: a daily diary design

Cited by 15 publications

References 65 publications

Working from home during COVID-19: boundary management tactics and energy resources management strategies reported by public service employees in a qualitative study

Working from home during COVID-19: boundary management tactics and energy resources management strategies reported by public service employees in a qualitative study

Crafting and human energy: Needs-based crafting efforts across life domains shape employees’ daily energy trajectories.

Motives for Crafting Work and Leisure: Focus on Opportunities at Work and Psychological Needs as Drivers of Crafting Efforts

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