Job crafting in schools for special education

Job crafting in schools for special education: A qualitative analysis [Job crafting in het speciaal onderwijs: Een kwalitatieve analyse]

van Wingerden, J.
Derks, D.
Bakker, A.B.
Dorenbosch, L.

2013

In this article we discuss the design and qualitative (process) evaluation of a job crafting intervention among employees at three Dutch schools for special education. In a period of 1.5 months, fifty employees participated in a group-based training intervention that addressed individual's job crafting activities aimed at improving individual's person-job fit by either lowering job demands or adding job resources and challenges. Through self-evaluations of the success of their job crafting actions and in-depth interviews, successful job crafters reported that they gained a better sense of control over their work and experienced reduced workload. Participants that were unsuccessful in crafting their job, emphasized the importance of the school's support to deal with the effects of unsuccessful job crafting actions. The article ends with a discussion and recommendations for future research on job crafting interventions.

BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences
Organisation
Healthy Living
Work and Employment
Special education
Training intervention
WorkloadJob carving
Job crafting
Job demands-resources model
Person-job fit
SP - Sustainable Productivity

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Gedrag en Organisatie, 26 (26), 85-103

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