Abstract
Is Job Crafting a Zero-Sum Game? Comparing The Well-Being Outcomes of Leader-Crafters and Followers
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2024(1)
08/2024
DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2024.14490abstract
Abstract
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While organizational leaders may engage in job crafting to fulfill their own work-related needs, the leadership role fundamentally involves fulfilling the needs of team members. As such, this study investigates whether and how a leader’s job crafting behavior provides self-directed well-being benefits while simultaneously enhancing or harming the well-being of team members. Drawing upon a sample of 92 university supervisors and 172 of their direct reports, we find that while leaders’ job crafting behaviors have an impact on their own well-being, they have little to no influence on followers’ well-being. Further, we find no association between leader job crafting behavior and followers’ perceptions of task and relational leadership. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for theory and practice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Is Job Crafting a Zero-Sum Game? Comparing The Well-Being Outcomes of Leader-Crafters and Followers
- Creators
- Jake T. Harrison - U. of IowaBeth Ann Livingston - U. of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2024(1)
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMPROC.2024.14490abstract
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2024
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984656559802771
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