Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

Job Crafting: The Pursuit of Happiness at Work

Kirkendall, Cristina D

Abstract Details

2013, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Wright State University, Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD.
Traditional job satisfaction theories focus on either environmental causes or stable underlying personality characteristics as determinants of job satisfaction, giving very little attention to the possibility that employees may be able to affect their own job satisfaction levels. Recent research on job crafting, however, has provided a source of optimism for changing job satisfaction levels. Job crafting is the processes by which employees actively shape their job to fit their individual needs and unlike the traditional models, it offers hope to those employees that work in a dissatisfying environment or whose personalities may not predispose them to high job satisfaction. This study expands on the current model of job crafting by including non-work behaviors that employees perform on the job, as well as work-related behaviors that employees perform away from the job. I explore how job crafting is currently used by employees and investigate personality and situational variables as both predictors and moderators. I also investigate the outcomes of job crafting and explore job crafting as a mediator of personality variables on job satisfaction.
Nathan Bowling, PhD (Advisor)
Gary Burns, PhD (Committee Member)
Melissa Gruys, PhD (Committee Member)
Corey Miller, PhD (Committee Member)
131 p.

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Kirkendall, C. D. (2013). Job Crafting: The Pursuit of Happiness at Work [Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1367092575

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kirkendall, Cristina. Job Crafting: The Pursuit of Happiness at Work. 2013. Wright State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1367092575.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kirkendall, Cristina. "Job Crafting: The Pursuit of Happiness at Work." Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1367092575

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)