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…

This paper outlines the main changes that have effected a transformation in the nature of academic work: on the one hand, the increasing diversification and specialisation of academic tasks, and on the other, new forms of control over academic work. An analysis of these trends leads to a discussion of the relationships between the evolution of…

Teachers need flexibility to adapt to the uncertain situations and unique needs they confront in their classrooms. Most efforts to reform public education address the needs of teachers at the expense of administration--and vice versa--reinforcing the tangled relationships and patterns of compromise and conflict they are meant to solve. This book…