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Background and rationale: In the new flexible and digitalized working life, life domains increasingly overlap, and a holistic perspective on life, including both work and leisure, is urgently needed. Crafting is a proactive behaviour that is oriented towards a unique person-environment fit. Through such crafting, employees can individually align their work and nonwork experience according to their values and needs. Job Crafting is a well-established strategy to lower work demands, increase resources, achieve better person-job fit and meaningful work. In this project, we extend this strategy of proactively shaping one's (work)-life by including crafting the boundaries between life domains and employees off-job time.
Overall and specific aims: Our study's overall goal is to investigate how the different forms of crafting the job, off-job time, and the boundary between work and nonwork are related and form patterns of crafting behaviours. We will also examine predictors (i.e., stable, situational, and crisis-related parameters) as well as health and wellbeing related outcomes of single and combined crafting behaviours.
We study these processes and relationships integrating three different data acquisition and analysis strategies: (1) on the long-term (7 waves with 3-month periods; digital surveys before the COVID-19 pandemic), (2) on the short-term (daily; ecological momentary assessments with up to eight assessments per day across one week), and (3) again on the long-term combining surveys with measurements before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (digital survey).
Impact: Our project aims to pave the way for creating a more meaningful and sustainable (working) life where employees have the agency to align their environment with individual needs and values. As a primary consequence of this project, we will identify relevant predictors and outcomes of crafting and patterns of combined crafting strategies. This project directly informs the simultaneous development of hybrid crafting interventions combining in-company training and digital tools.
ARD-Podcast: Prof. Jessica de Bloom „Frust am Arbeitsplatz: Job Crafting oder kündigen?“ (2023) Link
Ho, K. L., de Bloom, J., Kerksieck, P., Mäkikangas, A., and Bauer, G. F. (2024, Feb 13-14). Moment-to-moment dynamics of crafting, nature exposure, nature relatedness, and energy throughout working days: Using Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling. In L. M. Mülder (Chair), How is crafting helping? Zooming into crafting approaches and their transformative potential for job characteristics, health, and environmental situational factors [Symposium]. The 2024 Centre for Transformative Work Design Conference, Perth, Australia.
Kerksieck, P., Ho, K. L., Morstatt, A., de Bloom, J., and Bauer, G. F.A new perspective on the work-nonwork balance: Work-Nonwork Balance Crafting. Chair: Shimazu, A. and Nakata, A. Work Engagement, Positive Mental Health in the Workplace. (2023, Sptember) Joint Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health – Work Organizations and Psychosocial Factors & Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work, Tokyo, Japan.
Ho, K. L., De Bloom, J., Kerksieck, P., Mäkikangas, A. & Bauer, G. F.: Patterns of changes in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Investigating the role of crafting, demands and resources. (2023, September). The "great rethink": Understanding work engagement, performance, and well-being in the new work normal; European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Small Group Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ho, K. L., Kerksieck, P., de Bloom, J., and Bauer, G. F. Situational and daily crafting patterns across life domains during working days: The role of personal resources and environmental situational factors. (2023, May). What is Causing Crafting Behaviour? Setting the Light on Predictors and Need Satisfaction [Symposium]. Chair: Mülder, L. Discussant: de Bloom, J. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Katowice, Poland.
Morstatt, A. I., Bauer, G. F., Kerksieck, P., Casper, A., Sjöström-Bujacz, A., and de Bloom, J. Anticipatory processes as predictors for day-specific crafting patterns across life domains and its consequence for the recovery process. (2023, May). What happens at work, stays at work...? How and when work experiences spill over into recovery time [Symposium] Chair: Rutten, R., and Hülsheger, U. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Katowice, Poland.
Lehmann, A. I., Kerksieck, P. & Bauer, G. F.: Changes in job crafting during the COVID-19 pandemic in employees with and without mental health issues: The role of job resources. (2023, May). Do it Yourself – Multilevel Perspectives on Job Crafting in the Workplace. [Symposium]. Chair: Ariana Constantini European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Katowice, Poland.
Kerksieck, P., Ho, K. L., Kujanpää, M., Weigelt, O. & Bauer, G. F.: Future-oriented job crafting. How crafting shapes employees' perception of the future of work. A survey on 18.000 employees in 35 countries. (2023, May). New horizons of crafting: Needs-based crafting in changing working lives. [Symposium] Chair: Kujanpää, M., and Bauer, G. F. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Katowice, Poland.
