Job crafting and its effects on employees' work engagement and job satisfaction

Abstract

The nature of employment seems to change in a rapid way due to transformations of the work environment such as faster innovations, global competition and lighting from production economies and advancement of information technologies. Job Crafting allows employees satisfy their self-determination needs such as autonomy, meaning, competence as well as, impact. Being able to craft your job refers to a bottom-up process that individuals undertake themselves to better match their own aspirations, preferences, needs and circumstances to their job.