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TITLE:

A Literature Review of Job Crafting and Its Related Researches

AUTHORS:
Changyi Peng

KEYWORDS:
Job Crafting, Job Design, Bottom to up Behavior

JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.6 No.1,
March
20,
2018

ABSTRACT: Job crafting is a hot topic in the field of organizational behavior researches and human resource management. Job crafting is a bottom to up behavior, which is different from traditional up to bottom job design, representing the staff’s proactivity. Under job crafting, staffs incline to redefine and reshape the job content, working mode and cooperation relationship with teammates. Besides, job crafting can optimize organizational design and working relationship, which improves the staff’s working identification and adversity coping ability. Based on the previous research results, this article attempts to summarize the definition, measurement, antecedents and consequences of job crafting. Meanwhile, this article also puts forward future research directions of job crafting.