Job crafting in changing organizations: Antecedents and implications for exhaustion and performance

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 470-480

  Petrou, Paraskevas ^a,b   Demerouti, Evangelia ^c   Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^a,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Exhaustion; Job crafting; Organizational change; Task performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB ADAPTATION; JOB CRAFTING; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB STRESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POLICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942551664     PISSN: 10768998     EISSN: 19391307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0039003     Document Type: Article

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