Job crafting, or proactive changes that individuals make in their job design, can influence and be influenced by coworkers. Although considerable research has emerged on this topic, overall, the way job crafting is responded to by coworkers has received little theoretical attention. The goal of this article is to develop a model that allows for a better understanding of job crafting in interdependent contexts. Drawing on attribution and social information theories, we propose that when job crafting has a negative or positive impact on coworkers, coworkers will make an attribution about the crafter’s prosocial motive. This attribution in turn influences whether coworkers respond in an antagonistic or a supportive way toward job crafters. Ultimately, coworkers’ reactions shape the experienced affective work outcomes of job crafters. We also theorize the factors that moderate coworkers’ reactions to job crafting behaviors and the job crafter’s susceptibility to coworker influence.

Maria Tims

Sharon K. Parker

Organizational Psychology Review

Organizational Psychology Review is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by SAGE in partnership with the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.    Organizational Psychology Review’s unique aim is to publish original conceptual work and meta-analyses in the field of organizational psychology (broadly defined to include applied psychology, industrial psychology, occupational psychology, organizational behavior, personnel psychology, and work psychology).    Articles accepted for publication in Organizational Psychology Review will have the potential to have a major impact on research and practice in organizational psychology. They will offer analyses worth citing, worth following up on in primary research, and worth considering as a basis for applied managerial practice. As such, these should be contributions that move beyond straight forward reviews of the existing literature by developing new theory and insights. At the same time, however, they should be well-grounded in the state of the art and the empirical knowledge base, providing a good mix of a firm empirical and theoretical basis and exciting new ideas.

Organizational Psychology Review is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by SAGE in partnership with the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology. The unique aim of Organizational Psychology Review is to publish original conceptual work and meta-analyses in the field of organizational psychology, broadly defined to include applied psychology, industrial psychology, occupational psychology, organizational behavior, personnel psychology, and work psychology. Articles accepted for publication in Organizational Psychology Review should have the potential to significantly impact research and practice in organizational psychology. They will provide analyses that are worth citing, worth following up on in primary research, and worth considering as a basis for applied managerial practice. As such, these contributions should move beyond straightforward reviews of existing literature by developing new theories and insights. At the same time, however, they should be well-grounded in the state of the art and the empirical knowledge base, providing a good mix of a solid empirical and theoretical foundation along with exciting new ideas.

《Organizational Psychology Review》是一本季度出版的同行评审学术期刊，由SAGE与欧洲工作与组织心理学协会合作出版。该期刊的独特目标是发表组织心理学领域（广义上包括应用心理学、工业心理学、职业心理学、组织行为学、人事心理学和工作心理学）的原创概念性研究和元分析。被《Organizational Psychology Review》接受发表的文章应具有对组织心理学研究和实践产生重大影响的潜力。这些文章将提供值得引用、值得在基础研究中跟进以及值得作为应用管理实践基础进行考虑的分析。因此，这些贡献应超越对现有文献的简单回顾，发展新的理论和见解。同时，它们也应扎根于最新的实证知识基础，提供良好的实证与理论基础的结合，以及令人兴奋的新想法。

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How coworkers attribute, react to, and shape job crafting

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