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Filtering by Tag: job crafting
New research has shown that actively seeking out challenges at work results in feeling more energetic, focused and dedicated at work, and less bored. This feeling of being engaged also leads individuals to actively seek out resources which positions individuals to continue seeking out challenges.
Job crafting means actively altering one's job to better suit one's skills and interests. This type of proactive behavior leads to higher levels of work engagement and to better job performance, according to a recent longitudinal study authored by researchers from the Netherlands. The results further showed that the effects are more pronounced regarding performance in core tasks than for more discretionary performance (e.g., providing social support at work).
Tims, M., Bakker, A. B., & Derks, D. (2015). Job crafting and job performance: A longitudinal study. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24(6), 914-928.
In order to maintain their health, motivation, and work ability, older employees should proactively manage their careers, as researchers from the Netherlands revealed in a recent study. The authors found that by changing tasks and relationships at work (so called job crafting) aging workers could adjust their jobs to their changing goals and motives, thus improving current as well as future person-job fit.
