TY - JOUR
T1 - What happens at work does not always stay at work: Daily job crafting and detachment among colleagues
AU - Sanz Vergel, Ana Isabel
AU - Nielsen, Karina
AU - Rodríguez-Muñoz, Alfredo
AU - Antino, Mirko
N1 - DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT: The data that support the findings of this study are publicly available at 4TU.ResearchData (Doi: 10.4121/16766929).
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - Through job crafting, employees proactively change or modify their tasks, thus reducing adverse job demands or protecting resources. There is still a lack of understanding of the impact that job crafting may have on colleagues at work (crossover effect), and how this may affect their ability to disconnect from work (spillover effect). In the present daily diary study, we examine these two processes among 82 dyads of colleagues (N = 164 employees) over five consecutive working days (N = 820 observations). We found a number of crossover and differential spillover effects. For example, when the focal employee starts new challenging projects, their colleague reacts by reducing the number of stressful tasks. This, in turn, affects psychological detachment from work. Specifically, whereas increasing challenging demands hinders daily detachment, decreasing hindering demands facilitates it. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that the impact of job crafting goes beyond the focal employee and beyond the work domain.
AB - Through job crafting, employees proactively change or modify their tasks, thus reducing adverse job demands or protecting resources. There is still a lack of understanding of the impact that job crafting may have on colleagues at work (crossover effect), and how this may affect their ability to disconnect from work (spillover effect). In the present daily diary study, we examine these two processes among 82 dyads of colleagues (N = 164 employees) over five consecutive working days (N = 820 observations). We found a number of crossover and differential spillover effects. For example, when the focal employee starts new challenging projects, their colleague reacts by reducing the number of stressful tasks. This, in turn, affects psychological detachment from work. Specifically, whereas increasing challenging demands hinders daily detachment, decreasing hindering demands facilitates it. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that the impact of job crafting goes beyond the focal employee and beyond the work domain.
KW - colleagues
KW - crossover
KW - job crafting
KW - psychological detachment
KW - spillover
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169682563&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/apps.12499
DO - 10.1111/apps.12499
M3 - Article
SN - 0269-994X
VL - 73
SP - 776
EP - 800
JO - Applied Psychology
JF - Applied Psychology
IS - 2
ER -