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Work limitations as a moderator of the relationship between job crafting and work performance: results from an SEM analysis of cross-sectional survey data

Authors: Vidya Sundar, Debra L. Brucker

Published in: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation | Issue 1/2023

Abstract

Purpose

Job crafting is an incremental, employee-initiated job design process used to achieve a better fit between job demands and worker skills. Persons with work limitations face multiple barriers to optimal work performance. Some persons with work limitations may innately use job crafting as a strategy to achieve better alignment with their job tasks and demands, however the extent to which job crafting may be helpful in improving work performance and engagement is unknown. The purpose of this study is (1) to examine the moderating role of work limitations in the relationship between job crafting and work performance and (2) to understand the complex relationship between job crafting, work limitations, work engagement, work performance, readiness to change, and worker characteristics.

Methods

We conducted an online survey of workers with and without disabilities (final N = 742) in 2020–2021. Our sample included workers aged 18 and older. Descriptive statistics, bivariate statistics, and Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) were used to assess the relationships among job crafting, work limitations, work engagement, work performance, readiness to change, and worker characteristics.

Results

Work limitation moderates the relationship between job crafting and work performance by weakening the impact of innate job crafting on work performance. Worker characteristics such as education and years of work experience predict crafting behaviors and work engagement mediates the relationship between job crafting and work performance.

Conclusions

Work limitation weakens the relationship between job crafting and work performance. Workers with limitations may benefit from job crafting interventions to increase work engagement and performance.

Our initial structural model included demographic characteristics such as age, race, and gender. These variables were dropped from the final model because of multicollinearity or because they did not contribute to the overall mode.

This interpretation of moderation (interaction) effects is different from conventional effect sizes such as Cohen’s d. Aguinis and colleagues [74] have established that the average effect size for moderation (interaction) effects is 0.009. Moderation (interaction) effect sizes of 0.005, 0.01, and 0.025 are considered small, medium, and large respectively.

Our hypotheses explored the direct effects on individual work performance and work engagement. Examination of specific indirect effects was beyond the scope of this paper.

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Title: Work limitations as a moderator of the relationship between job crafting and work performance: results from an SEM analysis of cross-sectional survey data
Authors: Vidya Sundar
Debra L. Brucker
Publication date: 19-07-2022
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation / Issue 1/2023
Print ISSN: 1053-0487
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3688
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-022-10055-6

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