Job crafting represents a proactive endeavor by employees to tweak their job responsibilities, relationships, and their perspective of the job itself, aiming to better synchronize their work with ...

What’s something that almost all employers have in common? They look for ways to promote a healthy, engaged workforce. This is because healthy and engaged employees tend to perform better, have higher ...

In my previous blog post, I presented Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski‘s research on work orientation and the distinctions between viewing your employment as a job, career or calling. Wrzesniewski notes that ...

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When it comes to career choice, we often hear advice like “find your passion” as if landing dream jobs is like a scavenger hunt, and the end goal is to find it; and for those who don’t find one, they ...

In the post-pandemic era we’re approaching, company solutions that are top-down and meant to span an entire organization may backfire when applied to the majority of workers. As an employee, the ...

It can be extremely difficult to land a new job right now, but if you're feeling unhappy in your current role, that's where "job crafting" can come in. Job crafting is a concept coined by ...

Researchers in the early 2000s wanted to study how people who worked in what might be considered “devalued work” dealt with their tasks day-to-day. University of Michigan professor Jane Dutton and Amy ...

In the nascent phase of their professional journey, individuals are on a path of self-discovery, seeking to identify their passions, hone their skills, and grasp their significance within the ...

Finding meaning outside of work and proactively tailoring duties on the job may help people who fail to gel with a company's culture stay engaged and become more productive workers, according to ...