Organizational Crafting: A New Take on Job Redesign in Relation to Personality and Work Engagement

Abstract

The porposed hypotehses were tested among 89 Dutch employees with a cross-sectional design, where the participants were recruited from two Dutch companies using an online questionnaire. The study applied the framework used in JD- R research and measured personality with the Big Five, focusing on Extraversion and Neuroticism. Results revealed that organizational crafting significantly predicts work engagement and mediates the relationship between Extraversion and work engagement, enhancing Extraversion’s positive influence on work engagement. Conversely, there was no significant relationship between Neuroticism and organizational crafting, and the negative impact of Neuroticism on work engagement was not explained by organizational crafting. These findings offer organizations practical recommendations, highlighting the importance of creating work environments that facilitate organizational crafting and the significant role of personality in shaping proactive work behaviors to enhance work engagement.