Research Perspectives from Job Control to Flexibility: Historical Outline, Depiction of Risks, and Implications for Future Research

Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner

“…However, the intention to report these preliminary findings related to increasing workplace resources concurs with Lazauskaite-Zabielske et al (2021) and Roskams and Haynes (2019) and raises the importance of considering the working environment as an essential part of work. In new ways of working, extended work environments provide employees with flexibility (Meyer et al, 2021) and motivational profit (Ryan and Deci, 2020), but may also cause drawbacks. In ICT-based mobile and multilocational work, controlling these embedded work environments is an integral part of work and thus, also a target of job crafting.…”

“…Employees also face significant challenges in managing the work-life interface as they typically hold multiple roles in the organisation due to labour shortages (Guest, 2002;Malik et al, 2010). Moreover, following the general flexibility paradigm (Korunka, 2021;Ramsdal and Skorstad, 2009), individual autonomy to craft a job can be viewed as an organisational resource that enables SMEs to respond to unexpected occurrences in their environment. Thus, by enhancing the conditions for job crafting and thereby, the autonomy of their employees, SMEs can improve their resilience to cope in complex environments (Laloux, 2014).…”