Author(s)

Jiaqi Tang, Boyue Yu

Corresponding Author

Jiaqi Tang

ABSTRACT

Job crafting is a bottom-up behavior centered on employees, which emphasizes employees' initiative. Job crafting reveals that employees can take active actions according to their own needs and job characteristics. Job crafting helps to improve the matching degree between employees and working environment, make employees realize self-worth and create greater value for the organization. Therefore, the research on job crafting is not only beneficial to the personal development of employees, but also of great significance to organizations. In this paper, the related research on job crafting is reviewed, the connotation definition and measurement dimension of job crafting are introduced, the antecedents and outcome variables of job crafting are summarized, and the future research direction is prospected.

KEYWORDS

Job Crafting, Proproactive Behavior, Job Demands-Resource model, Performance, Work Engagement