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It’S About Time: Understanding Job Crafting Through The Lens Of Individuals’ Temporal Characteristics, Hannah Weisman, Uta K. Bindl, Cristina B. Gibson, Kerrie L. Unsworth

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Job crafting refers to the myriad ways employees customize their jobs, such as by altering their tasks and social interaction at work. Numerous scholars over the past 20 years have remarked on the overall need to better understand the role of time in job crafting. However, the literature has not considered how employees think about time, or, relatedly, how they use and manage it—and why this might matter for job crafting. To address these unresolved issues, the current paper develops a conceptual model of individual-level, time-related characteristics that shape employees’ engagement in job crafting and the effects of job crafting …