"Linking job crafting to work engagement: the mediating role of organizational happiness" by Mohammed Yasin Ghadi (January 2024Management Research Review)
This article discusses the relationship between job crafting, organizational happiness, and work engagement in the United Arab Emirates. The study finds that job crafting has a positive effect on both organizational happiness and work engagement. The study also finds that organizational happiness partially mediates the relationship between job crafting and work engagement. This suggests that job crafting can lead to increased organizational happiness, which in turn leads to increased work engagement. The authors recommend that HR professionals develop programs and training workshops to help employees craft their jobs.
Our notes: Self-determinism (SDT) is a theory of human motivation and personality development. It was proposed by American psychologists Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan in the early 1980s.
According to the SDT, humans are born with three basic psychological needs:
Autonomy: People have the right to choose and control their own actions.
Competence: The perception that one is capable of completing tasks and achieving goals.
Relatedness: People develop close, trusting, and supportive relationships with others.
SDT believes that when these basic needs are met, people feel more motivated, energized, and fulfilled. Conversely, when these basic needs are threatened, people feel powerless, meaningless, and defeated.
SDT divides motivation into intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation refers to the activities that people do out of personal interests and preferences. Extrinsic motivation refers to the activities that people engage in in order to obtain an external reward or avoid punishment.
SDT believes that intrinsic motivation is more beneficial to personal development and well-being than extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation can help people improve their skills, gain a sense of accomplishment, and build a positive self-concept. Extrinsic motivations can cause people to feel stressed, anxious, and dissatisfied.