The role of work-related needs in the relationship between job crafting, burnout and engagement
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The role of work-related needs in the relationship between job crafting, burnout and engagement | |
| Creator | Travaglianti, Fabrice Babic, Audrey Hansez, Isabelle | |
| Description | Orientation: Knowing that it is imperative to better understand the antecedents and consequences of needs-supplies fit, the present research had two main objectives. Firstly we wanted to extend our knowledge about traditional psychological needs, for example highlighted through the Self-Determination Theory, by presenting more specific work-related needs. Secondly, following the new directions of organisational fit theories, we wanted to better understand how individuals make sense of fit.Research purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose more specific work-related needs in terms of employment quality and to test job crafting as an antecedent of needs-supplies fit (NS fit). We tested the double mediating role of NS fit (i.e. specific: based on more specific work-related needs, and general: based on global job perceptions) between job crafting and individual outcomes namely burnout and work engagement.Motivation for the study: By taking into account more specific work-related needs, this study aimed to add more specific information to better help predict well-being at work. Moreover, the present research responds to the need to better understand how individuals make sense of fit.Research design, approach, and method: Data were collected in a Belgian Public Federal Service (N = 1500). Our research model was tested using Structural Equation Modelling with Mplus.Main findings: Results show, (1) that specific NS fit perception was positively related to a global NS fit perception and (2) the partial mediating role (specific and general) of NS fit between job crafting and burnout and work engagement.Practical/managerial implications: Managers should encourage crafting behaviours and should know their team and that team’s specific needs.Contribution/added-value: By taking into account more specific work-related needs, our study suggests that needs-supplies may have more than one dimension. Moreover, it shows that job crafting is a way to increase NS fit. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-08-17 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v42i1.1308 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 42, No 1 (2016); 13 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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