Do Bored Employees Job Craft When Demands and Resources are Low?
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Abstract
Organizational researchers tout job crafting given its potential to enhance employee well-being through the creation of positive work environments. Previous research suggests that job crafting is most likely to occur in enriched environments replete with resources and challenging demands. The purpose of the current study was to examine if and why individuals job craft in unenriched work environments – work contexts low in demands and resources. We suggest that unenriched environments may only generate job crafting behaviors insofar as these environments are subjectively experienced as unpleasant by employees. Specifically, we offer state boredom as a mechanism through which unenriched environments can generate job crafting. Using a daily diary design, we found that low levels of job demands (i.e., workload) and job resources (i.e., task variety and co- worker social support) were associated with greater state boredom. In addition, and contrary to what we hypothesized, the results of our multilevel regressions indicated that bored individuals were less likely to job craft.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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