TY - CHAP AB - AbstractIdiosyncratic jobs occur when formal job duties match the abilities or interests of a specific person. New duties can accrue or be negotiated to match an existing employee or a potential hire. Idiosyncratic jobs can help organizations deal with changing contexts, and influence organizational goals and structure. They can affect job holders’ careers and organizational job structures. The evolutionary accumulation of idiosyncratic jobs can potentially generate unplanned organizational learning. Promising research frontiers include links to work on job crafting, I-Deals, negotiated joining, and ecologies of jobs. Deeper exploration of these domains can advance core theories of job design and organizational transformation and inform normative theory on organizational use of idiosyncratic jobs without falling into cronyism, inefficiency, or injustice. VL - 47 SN - 978-1-78635-436-5, 978-1-78635-435-8/0733-558X DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20160000047016 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20160000047016 AU - Miner Anne S. AU - Akinsanmi Olubukunola (Bukky) PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Idiosyncratic Jobs, Organizational Transformation, and Career Mobility T2 - The Structuring of Work in Organizations T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 61 EP - 101 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -