Testing the effectiveness of an online self-training job crafting intervention among remote workers
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Study designs: Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial
Abstract: Objective. Recently, remote work has emerged as a work arrangement that addresses societal challenges while transforming work experiences. Indeed, remote work alters traditional job design (e.g., distance from the organization, intensified use of technology, blurred work-home boundaries). As such, its expansion has made it crucial to rethink job redesign interventions. Interestingly, the flexibility provided to remote workers creates a favorable context for bottom-up interventions, such as job crafting interventions. Anchored in the Job Demands-Resources model, this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of an online self-training job crafting intervention, specifically designed for remote work, on job crafting behaviors, work engagement, job boredom, remote work performance, and work-to-home conflict. Methods. This study relied on an experimental design with randomized intervention (online self-training intervention) and control (intervention waiting list) groups. Participants (N = 87) completed the pre- (just before the intervention) and post- (four weeks after the intervention) measurements through an online questionnaire. Results. A repeated-measures general linear model revealed that the intervention led to an increase in seeking social job resources in the intervention group, relative to pre-intervention levels and to the control group. T-tests also indicated a buffering effect of the intervention on seeking challenging job demands, as the control group showed a decrease in these behaviors, unlike the intervention group. The intervention did not significantly impact participants’ increasing structural job resources, reducing hindering job demands, work engagement, job boredom, and remote work performance. Nonetheless, t-tests indicated a decrease in work-to-home conflict among participants in the intervention group after the intervention, relative to pre-intervention levels. Conclusions. These findings hold both theoretical and practical value, as they suggest that job crafting interventions offer a promising, though improvable, approach to promote job crafting behaviors and functioning at the work-home interface, in a remote work context known to blur work-home boundaries.
Source: HAL
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7206095843