| Abstract [eng] |
While researching job crafting as one of the factors for work efficiency, it is often analysed how the work environment can stimulate employees' willingness to craft their jobs. Simultaneously employee's leisure time, resources and requirements at home are also inseparable from job crafting. As it is difficult to find specific research on the relationship between job crafting and employee's leisure experiences along with importance of an employee's choice to segment work and leisure areas (segmentation preference), it is necessary to investigate what could encourage or supress job crafting as it is an important factor for both employee’s work efficiency and work satisfaction. The aim of this study was to determine how home resources and demands are related to job crafting, leisure crafting and the role of segmentation preference in these relationships. The study involved 237 respondents working in various Vilnius based companies. The mean age of the study participants was 32,5 years (from 19 to 65 years), 26,2% of the study participants were men, 73% were women, and 0,8% did not disclose their gender. During the study participants filled out form consisting of 5 questionnaires. The Job Crafting Scale developed by Tim and colleagues (2012) was used to assess job crafting; leisure crafting was measured with 9-statement Leisure Crafting Scale developed by Petrou and Bakker (2016); the Home Demands Scale developed by Peeters et al. (2005) was used to examine home demands; the Home Resources Questionnaire developed by Demerouti, Bakker and Voydanoff (2010) was used to assess home resources; the segmentation preference was measured by Kreiner’s (2006) four-statement scale. The participants also had to answer 5 demographic questions. The results of the study showed that job crafting strategies and leisure crafting are related to some of home resources and demands. Some of the strategies were also related with segmentation preference. The strategy of increasing structural resources is related to the quantitative home demands, developmental possibilities and the interaction between autonomy and segmentation. Decreasing hindering job demands was related to the home emotional demands, developmental possibilities, and segmentation preference. The strategy of increasing social job resources was related to quantitative demands and segmentation preference while quantitative, cognitive demands, and the resource of autonomy was related when the moderator was segmentation preference. Increasing challenging demands was related to quantitative, mental demands, developmental possibility, and segmentation preference. The leisure crafting was related to the quantitative home demands and developmental possibilities. |
