The effects of a job crafting intervention on the success of an organizational change effort in a blue‐collar work environment

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology - Tập 94 Số 2 - Trang 374-399 - 2021
Evangelia Demerouti1, Luc M. A. Soyer1, Maria Vakola2, Despoina Xanthopoulou3
1Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
2Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
3Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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The current study in a blue‐collar context investigates whether a job crafting intervention may facilitate employee adaptation to organizational change, while decreasing exhaustion and increasing positive attitudes towards change and safety behaviour. It was hypothesized that the intervention would increase job crafting behaviours (i.e., seeking resources, seeking challenges, and optimizing demands) resulting in decreased employee exhaustion, and improved change attitudes and employee safety behaviour (i.e., adherence to organization’s standard operating procedures). The quasi‐experimental study revealed that, after the intervention (consisting of a workshop, four weeks of job crafting implementation, and an evaluative session), employees reported an increase in two of the three trained job crafting strategies (i.e., seeking challenges, optimizing demands). Moreover, those who participated in the intervention reported lower levels of exhaustion, improved cognitive and behavioural attitudes towards change, and increased safety behaviour. The intervention was found to improve the affective, cognitive, and behavioural components of a change attitude due to increases in seeking challenges. Results were similar after controlling for quality information and leadership behaviour during the change. It is concluded that a job crafting intervention and resulting job crafting behaviour can be an effective way to achieve successful adaptation to organizational change.

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Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Tập 94 Số 2

374-399

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