The effect of work engagement on the relationship between job resources and job crafting

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2019-07-05

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Bilgiç, Reyhan
Türer, Bengi
Çelik, Deniz

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Job crafting is one of the new research fields to deal with job design strategies. There is a growing body of literature to understand antecedent factors and outputs of job crafting behaviors in different work settings. In this proposal, we will investigate the relationship between job resources, work engagement and job crafting. Although the literature mostly agree that there is a positive relationship between job crafting and work engagement, there seem to be a confusion about one dimension of job crafting which is decreasing hindering job demands. Therefore, another aim of this study is to understand what kind of job resource specifically related to which type of job crafting behavior in order to lighten the characteristics of different types of job crafting behaviors. The data will be collected from engineers who are currently working full-time in private or public sector in all branches. During data collection, convenient sampling will be used and sample size is expected to reach up to 200. Participants will be given job crafting, work engagement and the job resources subscale from the job resources and job demands scales. Regression analysis will be used to analyze the collected data. It is expected that high job resources will positively affect job crafting and low job resources will negatively affect job crafting in general via work engagement. However, decreasing hindering job demands which is the sub dimension of the job crafting is expected to increase at the low job resources condition apart from other sub dimensions of job crafting. It is proposed that decreasing hindering job demands might be used as a coping strategy by avoiding, whereas the other three sub dimensions of job crafting are used to cope with the situation by approaching and requires involvement. Instead of avoiding, approaching can serve employees to increase work engagement and job resources because we are not implying causality and variables can have reciprocal relationship with each other. Hence, deep understanding of this relationship, can be useful for developing different strategies for healthier and more productive work environment.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115311

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