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Regular versus cutback-related change: The role of employee job crafting in organizational change contexts of different nature.

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The present study addresses how job characteristics (e.g., autonomy, workload, and their interaction) relate to employee job crafting (i.e., seeking resources, seeking challenges, and reducing demands), and whether job crafting relates to employee work-related well-being (i.e., work engagement and exhaustion) across 2 distinct organizational change contexts: a context of threatening, cutback-related change (i.e., due to the financial recession in Greece) and a context of regular change (i.e., due to reorganization in the Netherlands). In both contexts, workload related positively to seeking resources when job autonomy was low, suggesting that employees seek resources to deal with the demanding context of organizational change. Furthermore, seeking resources and seeking challenges were generally associated with better work-related well-being, while reducing demands related positively to employee exhaustion only in the context of regular change (i.e., Dutch sample). Promising avenues for future research are discussed and practical recommendations are proposed to managers who deal with excessive (regular or cutback-related) organizational change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

Source: International Journal of Stress Management

DOI: 10.1037/str0000033

Authors: Paraskevas Petrou, Evangelia Demerouti, Despoina Xanthopoulou

Institutions: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Language: English

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: University of Southern California