Do job crafting opportunities help to win talent? Disentangling and contextualizing the effects of job crafting opportunities on applicant attraction

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Schüler, Jens ; Franzke, Sonja ; Boehnlein, Philipp ; Baum, Matthias:
Do job crafting opportunities help to win talent? Disentangling and contextualizing the effects of job crafting opportunities on applicant attraction.
In: Journal of Organizational Behavior. Bd. 44 (2023) Heft 5 . - S. 776-801.
ISSN 1099-1379
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2704

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Abstract

We argue that job crafting opportunities are not only helpful to motivate and enable the existing workforce but that they can also function as a signal to attract talent. With the help of two empirical studies (Study 1 – a conjoint experiment and Study 2 – a vignette study), we show that (a) a signaled opportunity for job crafting helps to attract job seekers; (b) job crafting signals can trigger positive as well as negative expectations of central job demands and resources that inform job acceptance intentions, and; (c) a proactive personality strengthens most of the positive expectations of job crafting signals while buffering adverse effects.