Purpose: The purpose of this study is to critically review current studies on job crafting to identify contextual factors related to employees' job crafting and to integrate the findings to help organizations improve employees' job crafting. Design/methodology/approach Based on the guidelines provided by Torraco (2016), the authors reviewed 44…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to outline how artificial intelligence (AI) can augment learning process in the workplace and where there are limitations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is a theoretical-based outline with reference to individual and organizational learning theory, which are related to machine learning methods as they are…

Purpose: This study, drawing upon affective events theory (AET), examines the relationships between work environment features, work events, affective states and attitudes in the Malaysian academic environment. Specifically, the authors examine the impact of supervisory support and welfare on role conflict, the impact of role conflict on affective…

Work values, which describe what employees seek from their jobs and which parts of their jobs are important to them, have been linked to employees' response to work situations, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. One work value that has not received adequate attention when exploring the link between work values and employees'…

To obtain an understanding of factors associated with job satisfaction of people with intellectual disability (ID), this study investigates the associations of job satisfaction with job characteristics (i.e., job demands, job resources) and personality, using the job demands-resources model. Data were gathered from 117 people and their employment…

Recent work design theories propose that the work design configuration (i.e. "work system") in an organization interacts with its broader social and economic environment. Nevertheless, there are few studies of how the broader environment affects the work system. In the present study, the authors used a qualitative theory-elaboration…

In this article we argue that mobile, design, content, and social media technologies have fundamentally redefined the role of the writer in the workplace. Rather than the originator of content, the writer is becoming a sort of multimodal editor who revises, redesigns, remediates, and upcycles content into new forms, for new audiences, purposes,…