Search results

1 – 2 of 2
Article
Publication date: 18 April 2024

Megumi Ikeda, Satoshi Tanaka and Kaede Kido

Recently, physical crafting has been found to positively affect emotional exhaustion through workload. However, the role of cognitive crafting in this process remains unexamined…

Abstract

Purpose

Recently, physical crafting has been found to positively affect emotional exhaustion through workload. However, the role of cognitive crafting in this process remains unexamined. To address this research gap, this study examined the relationship between cognitive crafting and emotional exhaustion, as well as whether cognitive crafting moderates the positive indirect effects of physical crafting on emotional exhaustion through workload.

Design/methodology/approach

The data were collected through an Internet survey conducted with 2,143 Japanese employees, and path regression analysis was conducted to analyze the data.

Findings

The results show that cognitive crafting was negatively correlated with emotional exhaustion, weakened the relationship between workload and emotional exhaustion and weakened the indirect effects of physical crafting on emotional exhaustion.

Practical implications

The practical implications of these findings suggest that practitioners should encourage the improvement of cognitive crafting. Implementation of job crafting interventions and customer participation could be effective in enhancing cognitive crafting.

Originality/value

The study provides a deeper understanding of how cognitive crafting influences emotional exhaustion and how it influences the process through which physical crafting influences emotional exhaustion, aligning with the transactional model. The results reiterate the importance of cognitive crafting, an aspect that has received little attention since the introduction of the job demands-resources (JD-R) model of job crafting.

Details

Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 39 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-3946

Keywords

Article
Publication date: 28 February 2023

Megumi Ikeda

In recent years, scholars have questioned the linear relationship between challenge stressors and positive outcomes. Nevertheless, few studies have examined whether challenge…

Abstract

Purpose

In recent years, scholars have questioned the linear relationship between challenge stressors and positive outcomes. Nevertheless, few studies have examined whether challenge stressors and workplace learning outcomes have an inverse U-shaped relationship. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether challenge stressors have an inverse U-shaped relationship with workplace learning outcomes among young Japanese employees.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected from 1,257 individuals in two time periods through an internet survey and analyzed using regression analysis.

Findings

The findings suggest that challenge stressors have an inverse U-shaped relationship with workplace learning outcomes.

Practical implications

The relationship between challenge stressors and workplace learning outcomes is positive until a certain point and becomes negative after a certain point. Hence, when promoting learning outcomes among young employees, supervisors should be careful to avoid subjecting employees to very little or excessive amount of challenge stressors.

Originality/value

This study provides evidence supporting the assumption that the relationship between challenge stressors and positive outcomes has an inverted U-shape.

Details

Journal of Workplace Learning, vol. 35 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1366-5626

Keywords

1 – 2 of 2