英文摘要 |
How to create the meaningful job and the meaningfulness of job are the emerging topics in human relations management literature. One approach to tackle the topics is job crafting. Job crafting has been denoted as an employee actively change the boundaries of task, relationship and cognition to create new work identity, increase work meaningfulness and satisfaction. Prior literature could be divided into two streams. The first one explored the causes, techniques and outcomes of job crafting process. The second focuses on how employees exercise of the resource, challenge and demand of job to form job-crafting behavior. However, there are two gaps in literature: the first gap is to neglect to identify how the job crafters go across the boundaries of task, relationship and cognition. The other gap is the researchers seldom explore the change of the capabilities of job crafter. The study aimed to fill the gaps by employing qualitative case study method. The selected case was the baker who won the champion of the world baking competition. The findings show that job crafting could be seen as the process of capabilities cultivation pushed by the sense of purpose. Job crafter needs to adapt his capabilities to cope with the requirements of the new boundaries of task, relationship and cognition. The implications for the relevant theories and practices were discussed. |