Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, Poland.
Department of Learning, Informatics, Karolinska Institutet, Procome Research Group, Medical Management Center, Management and Ethics, Stockholm, Sweden.
PLoS One. 2020 Aug 10;15(8):e0237250. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237250. eCollection 2020.
Job crafting is beneficial for employees and organizations. To better predict these behaviors, we introduce the concept of job crafting self-efficacy (JCSE) and define it as an individual's beliefs about their capability to modify the demands and resources of their job to better fit their needs. This article describes the development and validation of a scale to measure JCSE. We conducted a qualitative study to design and four quantitative studies to test the psychometric properties of this scale among Polish and American employees in both paper-and-pencil and online versions. Three independent (N1 = 364; N2 = 432; N3 = 403) confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated a good fit to a 3-factor solution comprising JCSE beliefs about increasing (a) structural job resources, (b) social job resources, and (c) challenging job demands. The 9-item JCSE Scale had good internal consistency, high time stability, and good validity. It correlated positively with general self-efficacy. JCSE explained unique variance in job crafting behaviors over and above general self-efficacy, and was more important in predicting job crafting than contextual factors. We demonstrate the role of social cognitions in shaping job redesign behaviors and provide a useful tool to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions dedicated to empowering JCSE.
工作重塑对员工和组织都有益处。为了更好地预测这些行为，我们引入了工作重塑自我效能感（JCSE）的概念，并将其定义为个体对自身改变工作需求和资源以更好地满足自身需求的能力的信念。本文描述了一种用于测量 JCSE 的量表的开发和验证过程。我们进行了一项定性研究来设计该量表，并进行了四项定量研究，以测试其在波兰和美国员工中的心理测量特性，包括纸笔版和在线版。三个独立的（N1 = 364；N2 = 432；N3 = 403）验证性因素分析结果表明，该量表具有较好的三因素结构拟合度，包括 JCSE 对（a）增加结构性工作资源、（b）增加社会性工作资源和（c）增加挑战性工作需求的信念。由 9 个项目组成的 JCSE 量表具有较好的内部一致性、较高的时间稳定性和较好的有效性。它与一般自我效能感呈正相关。与一般自我效能感相比，JCSE 对工作重塑行为的解释具有独特的方差，并且比情境因素更能预测工作重塑。我们证明了社会认知在塑造工作再设计行为中的作用，并提供了一种有用的工具来评估专门用于增强 JCSE 的干预措施的效果。
