An Overview of Role of Job Crafting on Enhancing Employee Well Being in the Work Place

Employees engage in job crafting when they actively create what their job is physically, socially, and psychologically. While not well-known, job crafting has been shown to be a means for effectively improving emotional well-being in organizations. In order to help employees achieve emotional well-being in the workplace and the positive outcomes that go along with it (such as increased organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors, and improved performance), it is important to craft jobs so that employees can use their greatest strengths. Job crafting has been shown to increase productivity, quality, and efficiency while decreasing turnover and absenteeism. This paper examines the benefits of job crafting, how to design the job crafting intervention, and factors critical to job crafting success.