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…

The present study identifies job crafting profiles of public sector employees and how they differ in terms of employees' work engagement, workaholism, and approach to learning. Participants represent various occupations from educational field (e.g., teachers), technical field (e.g., ICT-experts), and administrative field (e.g., customer servants).…

What work strategies must university professors adopt to guarantee the service of higher education and even go beyond the role universities have formally established for them? This article aims to analyze the strategy of job crafting -- specifically, how it influences the job crafting strategies of approach vs. avoidance in prosocial service…

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'…

Objective: In order to increase employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), professionals are tasked with designing and implementing job training services to youth preparing to enter the job market. Having a better understanding of desirable employability skills aids in allowing professionals…

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,…

Drawing from theory on met expectations, person-environment fit, and social information processing, misfit between the pressure and autonomy experienced by workers and that which would be expected given their occupational roles was examined as a predictor of job satisfaction, perceived support, and depression. Results from a nationally (U.S.)…

The aim of this study was to make visible, and understand, possible opportunities for school improvement based on schoolchildren's lived experience and visionary ideas of school. Schoolchildren aged 10-12 from the northern part of Sweden participated in the study. The phenomenological analysis resulted in three themes, with no particular order of…

Work and education need to be redesigned in ways congruent with the values of a conservative society. Work is critical because it involves the ways we relate to the world to produce survival materials, and education is a major means to effect changes in attitudes and values. (JOW)

Career plateauing is a major issue due to demographics, changes in organizational structure, economic cycles, and changing worker values. Managers and organizations can address with specific strategies the four types of plateaued employees: productively, pleasantly, partially, and passively plateaued. (SK)

Analyzes the effects of an implementation of a three-day/thirty-eight hour (3/38) work schedule among information systems personnel (N=84). Data showed that 18 months after implementation, 3/38 employees still strongly favor the compressed schedule. Data also suggest substantial organizational payoffs including reductions in sick time, overtime,…

Compensatory and spillover models of adjustment to work are described. Data from a pharmaceutical firm and two research and development organizations are examined to illustrate operation of these models. Evidence of both the compensatory and spillover models were found for several different groups of workers. (Author)

Compared the predictive power of two models (work unit structure and job design) in association with employee job satisfaction. Results indicate the work unit structure did not have a significant association with employee job satisfaction. Job design emerged as an intervening variable in the work unit structure-employee job satisfaction…

Applications of moderated regression analysis in five areas of job design research are described and fully illustrated with actual survey data. Moderated regression analysis was superior to a subgroups analysis for the research questions being asked by investigators interested in job design research. (Author)

A survey of older workers disclosed a strong interest in alternative work options as a means of extending their work lives. Continuing part time in the same job was the most popular work option. (Author/CT)