A Multilevel Investigation of Individual and Contextual Effects on Employee Job Crafting

Jie Li (lijiesjtu@gmail.com), Tomoki Sekiguchi and Jipeng Qi (qijipeng@163.com)
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Jie Li: Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
Jipeng Qi: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University

No 14-12, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: We extend the theory of job crafting by proposing that job characteristics, individual differences, and group-level contexts interactively promote employee job crafting. Specifically, drawing on the theories of job characteristics, regulatory focus, and social exchange, we develop a multilevel model involving skill variety, an employee fs promotion focus, and procedural justice climate in predicting job crafting. To test our model, we conducted a survey of 265 employees working in 44 work groups at a state-owned enterprise in China. In support of our hypotheses, skill variety has a direct effect on job crafting, which is moderated by promotion focus. Further, our finding on the cross-level three-way interaction suggests that procedural justice climate is an important group-level context that influences employee job crafting. Implications for job crafting theory and future research directions are discussed.

Keywords: job crafting; skill variety; promotion focus; procedural justice climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 M12 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2014-04
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