Description
How do we create healthy, meaningful, and productive work in the face of hybrid work models, shifting careers, technological advances, an aging workforce, and other such major contemporary changes? Transformative Work Design explores this crucial question by presenting a thorough, evidence-based view of work design. With contributions from 49 highly eminent authors in the field across 25 chapters, it synthesizes research on how work design influences critical outcomes like worker motivation, mental health, well-being, and job performance for individuals and teams.The book also covers key methodologies for studying work design and explores new areas of research. For instance, authors explore how work design can shape identity and personality development, moving beyond the usual focus on wellbeing and performance outcomes. Additionally, the book shifts the traditional emphasis from understanding the outcomes of work design to unpacking the antecedents of work design. Chapters explore how various individual, team, organizational, and global factors shape the way people's work is designed, laying the foundation for understanding how to successfully redesign work.Picking up this perspective, several chapters focus on how to change work design. By discussing 'top down' work redesigns, such as self-managing teams, and 'bottom up' approaches like playful work design and job crafting, pathways to creating better work are identified. A final section highlights critical issues raised by large-scale technological and demographic shifts, such as remote working trends, population aging, and rapid digitalization.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Transformative Work Design: An Integrative FrameworkChapter 2: The Evolution of Work Design Theory and ResearchChapter 3: Multilevel Work Design: Integrating Work Characteristics Across Individual, Team, and Organizational Levels of AnalysisChapter 4: Job-Design and Well-Being: A Review of the Empirical EvidenceChapter 5: Work Design and PerformanceChapter 6: Work Design and Identity: Taking Stock of What We Know and Charting Pathways for Future ResearchChapter 7: What You Do Makes Who You Are: The Role of Work Design in Personality ChangeChapter 8: Methodology in Work Design Research: The Past, Present, and (Longitudinal) FutureChapter 9: Global and National Factors Shaping Work DesignChapter 10: Occupational, Organisational, Managerial and Work Group FactorsChapter 11: Developmental ChallengeChapter 12: How and Why do Top-Down Work Redesign Interventions Impact Wellbeing and Performance?Chapter 13: Implementing and Sustaining Work RedesignChapter 14: Capturing the magic: A PAARTH to Participatory Work DesignChapter 15: Understanding the outcomes of work transformations: Evaluation of organizational interventionsChapter 16: Job Crafting Theory and PerspectivesChapter 17: Job Crafting InterventionsChapter 18: It Pays to Play: Playful Work DesignChapter 19: Artificial Intelligence: How it Changes the Landscape for Work Design Research and PracticeChapter 20: Reimagining Work Design in Contemporary Employment: The Disruptive Rise of the Gig EconomyChapter 21: The Perils of Algorithmic Management for Work DesignChapter 22: Understanding Why, When, and How Virtual Work Works Through the Lens of a Work Design PerspectiveChapter 23: Designing Work to Retain an Ageing WorkforceChapter 24: Text Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Job Analysis and Job DesignChapter 25: Where is the Future of Work Design Research Heading? A Roadmap for Key Topics to Be Investigated
