Job Crafting

Name: Job Crafting
Brand: The MIT Press
SKU: 9780262048880-MTUSDTR
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Benjamin Laker (Author) • Lebene Soga (Author) • Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun (Author) • Adeyinka Adewale (Author) ... more

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English • Age Adult - Adult

160 pages • 6.0 x 9.0 in

Approx. weight: 1.25 lb

Publication date: 23 Apr,2024

Barcode: 9780262048880 • The MIT Press

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By: Benjamin Laker, Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, Adeyinka Adewale

A practical and timely guide that shows employees how to craft the jobs they want and managers how to shape their organizations in ways that are conducive to such job crafting.

Job Crafting is a rigorous, modern take on job redesign that empowers workers to transform the jobs they have into the ones they want. Through the process of job crafting, a worker proactively alters their job to emphasize tasks that better align with their skills or that allow opportunities to learn new skills, with the help of executives who are willing to transform their organizations into supportive work environments. Offering practical guidance grounded in empirical evidence, British researcher Benjamin Laker and coauthors Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, and Adeyinka Adewale describe the steps necessary for businesses and organizations to facilitate that support.
Rather than passively receive job titles and role descriptions, job crafters harness meaning at work through three primary avenues:

exercising greater control over tasks,
determining the way tasks are perceived, and
shaping social context.

Based on data from a previous study in which structured interviews were conducted with one thousand business leaders and two thousand of their workers around the world, the authors’ clear, four-step framework shows managers how to maximize staff engagement and productivity by building the systems, structures, and processes that empower workers to job craft. As new principles of stewardship, authenticity, and empowerment redefine the old command-and-control leadership approach, and generations Y and Z seek autonomy and purpose at work, job crafting offers a potential silver bullet to many workforce problems. Aimed at managers, executives, scholars, and executive education students, Job Crafting rejuvenates discussions of job design, leaving readers informed and ready to discuss how to improve their performance and satisfaction in all sectors.