Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 2;18(1):291. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18010291.
Creative employees are treasured assets for organizations. However, relatively little is known about what specific actions employees can take to manage their own creative process. Taking a motivational perspective, this study examined how job crafting behaviors positively link to employee creative performance through work engagement, and whether perceived work group status diversity moderates this relationship. We conducted a weekly diary study in which 55 employees from a Chinese energy company were asked to fill in diaries over four consecutive weeks (176 observations in total). Results of the multilevel analyses showed that weekly job crafting behaviors were positively related to weekly creative performance through increasing weekly work engagement. In contrast to our expectation, we found that weekly job crafting behaviors were more positively related to weekly creative performance when perceived work group status diversity was high. In summary, our study suggests that job crafting behaviors are effective actions employees can take to manage their creative processes through increasing work engagement. In addition, we stress that status diversity in existing work environments is an important contextual factor that shapes the job crafting process.
创意员工是组织的宝贵资产。然而，对于员工可以采取哪些具体行动来管理自己的创意过程，人们知之甚少。本研究从激励的角度出发，探讨了工作重塑行为如何通过工作投入积极影响员工的创造性绩效，以及感知到的工作群体地位多样性是否调节这种关系。我们进行了一项每周日记研究，要求一家中国能源公司的 55 名员工在连续四周内填写日记（共 176 个观察值）。多层次分析的结果表明，每周的工作重塑行为通过增加每周的工作投入，与每周的创造性绩效呈正相关。与我们的预期相反，我们发现当感知到的工作群体地位多样性较高时，每周的工作重塑行为与每周的创造性绩效的相关性更高。总之，我们的研究表明，工作重塑行为是员工通过增加工作投入来管理自己的创意过程的有效行动。此外，我们强调现有工作环境中的地位多样性是塑造工作重塑过程的一个重要背景因素。
