The influence of human resource management systems on employee job crafting: An integrated content and process approach

Abstract

AbstractAlthough job crafting has many beneficial outcomes for organisations, research on the antecedents of this behaviour is lacking. Through a two‐wave study including 87 managers and 342 employees of nine Chinese firms, an integrated content and process model of human resource management (HRM) systems is developed and used to demonstrate that HRM systems have a crucial influence on employee job crafting. The results of multilevel structural equation models reveal that implemented HRM systems can increase employee task and relational crafting through the mediating effect of perceived HRM systems. Furthermore, the HRM system features of distinctiveness, consistency and consensus positively moderate the strength of the relationship between implemented and perceived HRM systems, as well as the indirect effect of implemented HRM systems on employee task and relational crafting.