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The manner in which you craft your job depends on the context: evidence from Poland and China

Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland)
Dariusz Turek (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland)
Le Tan (School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi'an, China)
Hanyu Gao (Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, Macau, China)

Cross Cultural & Strategic Management

ISSN: 2059-5794

Article publication date: 21 August 2024

Issue publication date: 27 November 2024

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Abstract

Purpose

Drawing on the job demands-resources theory (JD-R), this study aims to discuss the relationship between paradoxical leadership and job crafting (approach and avoidance), considering the moderating role of overwork climate and organisational identification in two cultural context (China and Poland).

Design/methodology/approach

The research was conducted on employees from diversified organisations in two different cultural context: China (N = 408) and Poland (N = 400). Statistical verifications of the three-way interaction effect were conducted with Jamovi version 2.3 and multigroup analysis with SPSS AMOS version 29.

Findings

The results showed that employees who perceive high levels of paradoxical leadership and overwork climate as well as possess a high level of organisational identification engage stronger in job crafting, both approach and avoidance. Moreover, the results demonstrated that the dimensions of culture: individualism-collectivism moderate the relationship between the variables tested, in such a way that the relationship is stronger with the lower level of individualism.

Research limitations/implications

This study has two limitations: its cross-sectional design and the use of self-reported questionnaire data.

Originality/value

The study expands knowledge of the relationship between paradoxical leadership and job crafting in two different cultural contexts.

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Acknowledgements

Funding: This work was supported by the National Centre for Science [Decision No. 2017/25/B/HS4/01395] and the Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China [Grant number: 19YJA630064].

Citation

Wojtczuk-Turek, A., Turek, D., Tan, L. and Gao, H. (2024), "The manner in which you craft your job depends on the context: evidence from Poland and China", Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp. 584-610. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-05-2023-0081

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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