Job Crafting: A Review of Theoretical Integration and Application Extension

Xizhou Tian; Meiling Liu; Qingsong Jiao; Xin Wei; Rong Huang

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Job Crafting: A Review of Theoretical Integration and Application Extension

Xizhou Tian, Meiling Liu, Qingsong Jiao, Xin Wei, Rong Huang

Published in Journal of Human Resource Management (Volume 10, Issue 2)

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Abstract

Likely reflecting its value in today's dynamic environment, the amount of research on job crafting is burgeoning. There are two dominant perspectives of job crafting—the original theory from north american school of job crafting research and the job demands resources perspective from european school of job crafting research. We argue that job crafting can also be understood from a new perspective, i.e. rationality and emotion. Reviewing literature on job crafting, especially on its theoretical integration and application extension, we conclude that the researches have been expanded to integrate new theoretical frameworks and better understand practical application, i.e., the literature has incorporated new theories like individual strengths theory, regulatory focus theory, and emotional theory into job crafting research. It has also developed practical strategies for dealing with dirty work, aging employees, workers with an unanswered calling. And as a contribution, we provide a new taxonomy of job crafting: rational and emotional perspectives. Future studies should focus on the mechanisms of job crafting in practice, relationship between leadership, role-shifting and job crafting, and the construction of positive identities based on job crafting. At last, limitations of this review are presented, including interrelation of emotional and rational job crafting, association of emotional and rational type with other kinds of job crafting, such approach-avoidance or quantitative-qualitive perspectives.

Published in	Journal of Human Resource Management (Volume 10, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11
Page(s)	38-48
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Job Crafting, Theoretical Integration, Application Extension, Rational Job Crafting, Emotional Job Crafting

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Xizhou Tian

School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China
Meiling Liu

School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Qingsong Jiao

School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China
Xin Wei

School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China
Rong Huang

School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China

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Xizhou Tian, Meiling Liu, Qingsong Jiao, Xin Wei, Rong Huang. (2022). Job Crafting: A Review of Theoretical Integration and Application Extension. Journal of Human Resource Management, 10(2), 38-48. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11

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Xizhou Tian; Meiling Liu; Qingsong Jiao; Xin Wei; Rong Huang. Job Crafting: A Review of Theoretical Integration and Application Extension. J. Hum. Resour. Manag. 2022, 10(2), 38-48. doi: 10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11

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Xizhou Tian, Meiling Liu, Qingsong Jiao, Xin Wei, Rong Huang. Job Crafting: A Review of Theoretical Integration and Application Extension. J Hum Resour Manag. 2022;10(2):38-48. doi: 10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11

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@article{10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11,
  author = {Xizhou Tian and Meiling Liu and Qingsong Jiao and Xin Wei and Rong Huang},
  title = {Job Crafting: A Review of Theoretical Integration and Application Extension},
  journal = {Journal of Human Resource Management},
  volume = {10},
  number = {2},
  pages = {38-48},
  doi = {10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jhrm.20221002.11},
  eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.jhrm.20221002.11},
  abstract = {Likely reflecting its value in today's dynamic environment, the amount of research on job crafting is burgeoning. There are two dominant perspectives of job crafting—the original theory from north american school of job crafting research and the job demands resources perspective from european school of job crafting research. We argue that job crafting can also be understood from a new perspective, i.e. rationality and emotion. Reviewing literature on job crafting, especially on its theoretical integration and application extension, we conclude that the researches have been expanded to integrate new theoretical frameworks and better understand practical application, i.e., the literature has incorporated new theories like individual strengths theory, regulatory focus theory, and emotional theory into job crafting research. It has also developed practical strategies for dealing with dirty work, aging employees, workers with an unanswered calling. And as a contribution, we provide a new taxonomy of job crafting: rational and emotional perspectives. Future studies should focus on the mechanisms of job crafting in practice, relationship between leadership, role-shifting and job crafting, and the construction of positive identities based on job crafting. At last, limitations of this review are presented, including interrelation of emotional and rational job crafting, association of emotional and rational type with other kinds of job crafting, such approach-avoidance or quantitative-qualitive perspectives.},
 year = {2022}
}

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