Multi-Level Perspectives on the Causes of Job Design

Abstract

High quality job design has been identified as one of the most important determinants of employee well-being and performance, and –hence- firm performance. Although research has settled on the identification of the key job characteristics and their moderating and mediating variables, surprisingly many employees are still working in low quality jobs. Against this background, this symposium draws attention to the determinants or causes of job design. Specifically, throughout the contributions we build a multilevel perspective and tap into (1) job crafting of individual employees, (2) job crafting of coworkers, (3) implicit theories of job designers, (4) organizational values and (5) national institutions as antecedents of job characteristics. This symposium provides theoretical and empirical papers from around the globe, which rely on high quality data and state of the art methodology. Our work therefore invites scholars to take the research on job design to the next level and provides insight in how good job design might be facilitated by taking a multi-stakeholder perspective. Job Crafting: A multi-level Typology and Integrated Framework Presenter: Rachel Nayani; Norwich Business School Presenter: Kevin Daniels; Norwich Business School Presenter: Olga Tregaskis; Norwich Business School How Intrinsic and Extrinsic Organization Values Relate to Job Demands and Job Resources. Presenter: Anja Van den Broeck; KU Leuven Presenter: Yannick Griep; Vrije U. Brussel Presenter: Elfi Baillien; KU Leuven Presenter: Maarten Sercu; External Service for Prevention and Protection at work Presenter: Hans De Witte; KU Leuven Presenter: Lode Godderis; Department of Public Health and Primary Care Enjoyment of Work and Driven to Work as Interacting Motivations to Job Craft Presenter: Gregory Allen Laurence; U. of Michigan, Flint Presenter: Yitzhak Fried; Syracuse U. The Influence of National Institutions on the Quality of Job Design in Europe from 1995 to 2010 Presenter: David Holman; The U. of Manchester Designing Work: What Task Allocations Come Naturally? Presenter: Sharon K. Parker; U. of Western Australia Presenter: Daniela Andrei; U. of Western Australia, Accelerated Learning Laboratory