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8. Turn Your Work into Your Calling with Job Crafting

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If you like your job, but you don't love it: did you know you can make small changes to help your job feel more like a calling?

In today's episode Paula and Jess cover what social scientists Dr Amy Wrzesniewski and colleagues call job crafting: three ways in which you can make adjustments so that your work starts feeling more like a calling. These include:

  1. Task crafting - Changing the number, scope, or type of job tasks. For example, how can you be creative around the nature of your tasks to get the same job done?
  2. Relational crafting - Changing the quality of the interactions with other people on the job.
  3. Cognitive crafting - Changing how we perceive our tasks and their meaning.

We refer back to Episode 2 - What Makes Up A Calling, since we are incorporating small changes based on what gives us meaning.

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Sources for this podcast's episodes:

Wrzesniewski, A., Berg, J. M., & Dutton, J. E. (June 2010). Turn the job you have into the job you want. Harvard Business Review, 114-117 Available here.

Berg, J.M., Dutton, J.E., & Wrzesniewski, A. (2007). What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter?. Retrieved from https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/What-is-Job-Crafting-and-Why-Does-it-Matter1.pdf

Berg, J. M., Wrzesniewski, A., & Dutton, J. E. (2010). Perceiving and responding to challenges in job crafting at different ranks: When proactivity requires adaptivity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31, 158-186.