Exploring the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting
本研究将行动调节理论融入工作重塑研究，通过混合方法发现员工主动使用信息通信技术改变工作需求和资源的七种策略，并验证其与工作重塑、前因及结果的关系。
In this paper, we integrate Action-Regulation Theory into job crafting research to explore workers' agency in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to redesign their work. Specifically, using a sequential mixed-methods design, we investigate workers' proactive use of ICTs for job crafting. In Study 1, we explore workers' use of ICTs to change their job demands and job resources using interviews and identify seven underlying ICT use crafting tactics. In Study 2, we find support for the factorial structure of the seven ICT use crafting tactics and provide evidence of their relevance by testing the relationships between these seven tactics and established measures of job crafting, key antecedents of job crafting (proactive personality, personal initiative), and key outcomes of job crafting (skill utilization, person-environment-fit), using a two-wave survey. We discuss theoretical implications for the literature on job crafting and work-related ICT use, and formulate practical recommendations for organizations to support the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting. • Individuals proactively use ICTs to redesign their work. • ICTs use approach- and avoidance-oriented ICT tactics for job crafting. • ICT use tactics transcend extant job crafting typologies. • ICT use job crafting tactics correlate with established job crafting measures, antecedents, and outcomes. • Approach-oriented ICT use crafting tactics showed stronger relationships to proximal outcomes.