Job Crafting: A Challenge to Promote Decent Work for Vulnerable Workers

Job Crafting: Older Workers’ Mechanism for Maintaining Person-Job Fit

Aging at work is a dynamic process. As individuals age, their motives, abilities and values change as suggested by life-span development theories (Lang and Carstensen, 2002; Kanfer and Ackerman, 2004). Their growth and extrinsic motives weaken while intrinsic motives increase (Kooij et al., 2011), which may result in workers investing their resources in different areas accordingly. However, the...

For a Psychosocial Approach to Decent Work

The notion of decent work was developed by the International Labour Organization 20 years ago. The notion is now well known by lawyers, economists, and sociologists, and even if it appears difficult to define it clearly, it constitutes a useful general framework with which to think of the relationships between policy practices, work market globalization, and human rights principles. The fields ...

Weekly job crafting and leisure crafting: Implications for meaningmaking and work engagement

Thepresent paper addresses two crafting strategies employeesmay display in different life domains in order to attain desired outcomes. On the one hand, job crafting is targeted at increasing social and structural job resources and challenging job demands. On the other hand, leisure crafting is the proactive pursuit of leisure activities targeted at goal setting, humanconnection, learning, andpe...

Decent Work: A Psychological Perspective

This contribution, which serves as the lead article for the Research Topic entitled "From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work," explores current challenges in the development and operationalization of decent work. Based on an initiative from the International Labor Organization [ILO] (1999) decent work represents an aspirational statement about the qu...

Decent Work in Agriculture Synopsis of the Background paper (IWSDWA/2003) International Workers’ Symposium on Decent Work in Agriculture