Individual job redesign: Job crafting interventions in healthcare

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue , 2018, Pages 98-114

  Gordon, Heather J ^a   Demerouti, Evangelia ^a   Le Blanc, Pascale M ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b,e   Bipp, Tanja ^c,f   Verhagen, Marc A M T ^d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY   (Netherlands)

^e LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employee engagement; Job crafting; Job demands resources model; Job performance; Job redesign interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033574917     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2017.07.002     Document Type: Article

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