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The purpose of this study is to review the latest developments in the area of job crafting and provide guidelines on how to enable job crafting.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to review the latest developments in the area of job crafting and provide guidelines on how to enable job crafting.
Design/methodology/approach
The concept of job crafting is examined through a review, and the author gives his insights on the conditions to be created to enable job crafting.
Findings
In job crafting, individual employees and groups of employees customize their jobs by changing perceptions, tasks, and interactions related to their jobs in ways that would lead to work engagement and job satisfaction. Job crafting behavior is positively linked to engagement, work performance, job satisfaction, and employees’ well-being. Organizations can benefit by enabling job crafting to supplement top-down traditional job design approaches, thereby facilitating continuous improvement of jobs and innovation.
Originality/value
The different ways in which employees shape their jobs are examined, and guidelines on how to enable job crafting are elucidated.
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Emmanuel Kosack, Merlin Stone, Karen Sanders, Eleni Aravopoulou, Davide Biron, Sergio Brodsky, Esra Saleh Al Dhaen, Mohammed Mahmoud and Anastasia Usacheva
This paper aims to review the information management aspects of the early months of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) coronavirus 19 outbreak. It…
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to review the information management aspects of the early months of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) coronavirus 19 outbreak. It shows that the transition from epidemic to the pandemic was caused partly by poor management of information that was publicly available in January 2020.
Design/methodology/approach
The approach combines public domain epidemic data with economic, demographic, health, social and political data and investigates how information was managed by governments. It includes case studies of early-stage information management, from countries with high and low coronavirus disease 2019 impacts (as measured by deaths per million).
Findings
The reasons why the information was not acted upon appropriately include “dark side” information behaviours (Stone et al., 2019). Many errors and misjudgements could have been avoided by using learnings from previous epidemics, particularly the 1918-1919 flu epidemic when international travel (mainly of troops in First World War) was a prime mode of spreading. It concludes that if similar outbreaks are not to turn into pandemics, much earlier action is needed, mainly closing borders and locking-down.
Research limitations/implications
The research is based on what was known at the time of writing, when the pandemic’s exact origin was uncertain, when some statistics about actions and results were unavailable and when final results were unknown.
Practical implications
Governments faced with early warning signs or pandemics must act much faster.
Social implications
If the next virus is as infectious as SARS-CoV-2 but much more fatal, the world faces disastrous consequences if most governments act as slowly as this time.
Originality/value
This is one of the first analyses of information management practices relating to the pandemic’s early stages.
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