Shandong U. of Science and Technology, Tai'an Campus
Despite the emerging person-centered approach to job crafting, we have limited knowledge of the antecedents of job crafting profiles. Integrating the job demands-resources model and approach-avoidance perspective, the present research investigates how individual trait goal orientation and daily time pressure influence day-level job crafting profiles. Using two experience sampling method samples (Sample 1: N = 92, four times per day across 10 days; Sample 2: N = 46, four times per day across 10 consecutive workdays), we found that performance-prove oriented employees and those who experience daily time pressure engage in a proactive job crafting profile, simultaneously high in resource seeking, challenge seeking, and demand reducing. Moreover, job crafting profiles were found to significantly differentiate employee work engagement, task performance, and work-family conflict, such that the proactive job crafters are highest in work engagement, task performance, and role- and strain-based work-family conflicts. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in detail.
