From job crafting to home crafting: A daily diary study among six European countries
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From job crafting to home crafting : A daily diary study among six European countries. / Demerouti, Evangelia; Hewett, Rebecca; Haun, Verena; De Gieter, Sara; Rodríguez-sánchez, Alma; Skakon, Janne.
In: Human Relations, Vol. 73, No. 7, 2020, p. 1010–1035.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - From job crafting to home crafting
T2 - A daily diary study among six European countries
AU - Demerouti, Evangelia
AU - Hewett, Rebecca
AU - Haun, Verena
AU - De Gieter, Sara
AU - Rodríguez-sánchez, Alma
AU - Skakon, Janne
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The actions that individuals take to proactively craft their jobs are important to help create more meaningful and personally enriching work experiences. But do these proactive behaviors have implications beyond working life? Inspired by the suggestion that individuals aim for a meaningful life we examine whether on days when individuals craft their jobs, they are more likely to craft non-work activities. It also seems likely that characteristics of the home environment moderate these cross-domain relationships. We suggest that crafting crosses domains particularly when individuals gain resources through high autonomy and high workload at home. We partly supported our model through a daily diary study, in which 139 service sector employees from six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, UK) reported their experiences twice a day for five consecutive workdays. Home autonomy and home workload strengthened the positive relationship between seeking resources at work and at home. Moreover, home autonomy strengthened the positive association between seeking challenges at work and at home, and the negative relation between reducing demands at work and at home. These findings suggest that the beneficial implications of job crafting transcend life boundaries thereby providing advice for how individuals can experience greater meaning in their lives.
AB - The actions that individuals take to proactively craft their jobs are important to help create more meaningful and personally enriching work experiences. But do these proactive behaviors have implications beyond working life? Inspired by the suggestion that individuals aim for a meaningful life we examine whether on days when individuals craft their jobs, they are more likely to craft non-work activities. It also seems likely that characteristics of the home environment moderate these cross-domain relationships. We suggest that crafting crosses domains particularly when individuals gain resources through high autonomy and high workload at home. We partly supported our model through a daily diary study, in which 139 service sector employees from six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, UK) reported their experiences twice a day for five consecutive workdays. Home autonomy and home workload strengthened the positive relationship between seeking resources at work and at home. Moreover, home autonomy strengthened the positive association between seeking challenges at work and at home, and the negative relation between reducing demands at work and at home. These findings suggest that the beneficial implications of job crafting transcend life boundaries thereby providing advice for how individuals can experience greater meaning in their lives.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - compensation
KW - diary study
KW - home crafting
KW - job crafting
KW - spillover
U2 - 10.1177/0018726719848809
DO - 10.1177/0018726719848809
M3 - Journal article
VL - 73
SP - 1010
EP - 1035
JO - Human Relations
JF - Human Relations
SN - 0018-7267
IS - 7
ER -
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