The development and validation of an electronic job crafting intervention: Testing the links with job crafting and person-job fit

Using two intervention studies, this article examines the effectiveness of a newly developed electronic job crafting intervention (i.e., e-intervention) that aims to stimulate task, relational, and cognitive crafting and offers a time-efficient and cost-effective alternative to traditional face-to-face job crafting interventions. In Study 1, we quantitatively and qualitatively investigate the effects of the job crafting e-intervention on general levels of job crafting, while in study 2, we further test its direct relationship with task, relational, and cognitive crafting, and its indirect relationship with perceived person-job fit. In Study 1 (N = 59), multilevel analyses showed that the e-intervention indeed increased general levels of job crafting immediately after the 3 weeks lasting e-intervention. Moreover, by qualitatively investigating adherence to the intervention in the intervention group (n = 25), we found that mainly goal setting is important in stimulating job crafting. In Study 2 (N = 106), we further validated the effect on job crafting by confirming relationships with task crafting two weeks after the e-intervention and found an indirect relationship with needs-supplies fit via task crafting. We conclude that the e-intervention is a promising and accessible alternative to face-to-face job crafting interventions, especially for the specific form of task crafting.

Publication year:2021

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