Job crafting captures the active changes employees make to their own job designs in ways that can bring about numerous positive outcomes, including engagement, job satisfaction, resilience, and thriving. This briefing introduces the core ideas of job crafting theory for management students by defining it, describing why it is important, summarizing key research findings, and exploring what it means for employees, managers, and organizations.
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The Job Crafting Exercise helps people identify opportunities to make positive changes to their own job designs by encouraging them to view their jobs in a new way - as a flexible set of building blocks rather than a fixed list of duties. Using this perspective, each participant puts together a visual plan for redesigning his or her job to be more engaging and fulfilling.
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Please note: The Job Crafting Exercise is available in a printed version only - because of its unique format, purchase of a PDF for download is not possible. A teaching note is available at no cost to instructors who order the Job Crafting Exercise. To get the teaching note, please contact Janet Max at (734) 647-8154 or [email protected].