Does job crafting affect employee outcomes via job characteristics? A meta‐analytic test of a key job crafting mechanism

Job crafting refers to the self-initiated work behaviours employees use change their job characteristics. According design theory, these crafting-induced changes in characteristics should impact employee outcomes. can therefore be proposed as a key mechanism through which affects outcomes and we present cross-sectional meta-analytic structural equation modelling of this (K = 58 independent samples, N 20,347 employees). Results show significant indirect effects between task resource (well-being positive attitudes) via resources, social resources. also indicated that challenge hindrance demand increase strain increases demand. Overall, our findings indicate are an important mechanism, may have difficulty demands ways produce beneficial outcomes, future research needs consider simultaneously range mechanisms