Human Resource Studies Department, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2024 Oct 3;19(10):e0310717. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310717. eCollection 2024.
Job crafting is the behavior that employees engage in to create personally better fitting work environments, for example, by increasing challenging job demands. To better understand the driving forces behind employees' engagement in job crafting, we investigated implicit and explicit power motives. While implicit motives tend to operate at the unconscious, explicit motives operate at the unconscious level. We focused on power motives, as power is an agentic motive characterized by the need to influence your environment. Although power is relevant to job crafting in its entirety, in this study, we link it to increasing challenging job demands due to its relevance to job control, which falls under the umbrella of power. Using a cross-sectional design, we collected survey data from a sample of Lebanese nurses (N = 360) working in 18 different hospitals across the country. In both implicit and explicit power motive measures, we focused on integrative power that enable people to stay calm and integrate opposition. The results showed that explicit power predicted job crafting (H1) and that implicit power amplified this effect (H2). Furthermore, job crafting mediated the relationship between congruently high power motives and positive work-related outcomes (H3) that were interrelated (H4). Our findings unravel the driving forces behind one of the most important dimensions of job crafting and extend the benefits of motive congruence to work-related outcomes.
工作重塑是员工为创造更适合个人的工作环境而采取的行为，例如，通过增加具有挑战性的工作要求。为了更好地理解员工从事工作重塑的驱动力，我们调查了内隐和外显权力动机。虽然内隐动机往往在无意识层面起作用，外显动机则在无意识层面起作用。我们专注于权力动机，因为权力是一种有影响力的动机，其特征是需要影响你的环境。尽管权力与整个工作重塑都有关联，但在本研究中，由于权力与工作控制有关，而工作控制属于权力范畴，因此我们将其与增加具有挑战性的工作要求联系起来。我们采用横断面设计，从黎巴嫩全国 18 家不同医院的 360 名护士中收集了调查数据。在内隐和外显权力动机测量中，我们专注于整合权力，这使人们能够保持冷静并整合对立意见。结果表明，外显权力预测了工作重塑（H1），而内隐权力放大了这种效应（H2）。此外，工作重塑在高权力动机和积极的工作相关结果之间的关系中起中介作用（H3），这些结果是相互关联的（H4）。我们的研究结果揭示了工作重塑最重要维度之一的背后驱动力，并将动机一致性的益处扩展到工作相关的结果。
