Sponsor
This research was conducted as part of the Work, Family, & Health Network, which is funded by a cooperative agreement through the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (Grant # U01HD051217, U01HD051218, U01HD051256, U01HD051276), National Institute on Aging (Grant # U01AG027669), Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant # U010H008788).
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
8-2016
Subjects
Work & family, Quality of work life, Job satisfaction
Abstract
Although work schedulers serve an organizational role influencing decisions about balancing conflicting stakeholder interests over schedules and staffing, scheduling has primarily been described as an objective activity or individual job characteristic. The authors use the lens of job crafting to examine how schedulers in 26 health care facilities enact their roles as they “fill holes” to schedule workers. Qualitative analysis of interview data suggests that schedulers expand their formal scope and influence to meet their interpretations of how to manage stakeholders (employers, workers, and patients). The authors analyze variations in the extent of job crafting (cognitive, physical, relational) to broaden role repertoires. They find evidence that some schedulers engage in rule-bound interpretation to avoid role expansion. They also identify four types of schedulers: enforcers, patient-focused schedulers, employee-focused schedulers, and balancers. The article adds to the job-crafting literature by showing that job crafting is conducted not only to create meaningful work but also to manage conflicting demands and to mediate among the competing labor interests of workers, clients, and employers.
DOI
10.1177/0019793916642761
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18478
Citation Details
Kossek, Ellen Ernst; Piszczek, Matthew M.; Mcalpine, Kristie L.; Hammer, Leslie B.; and Burke, Lisa, "Filling the Holes: Work Schedulers as Job Crafters of Employment Practice in Long-Term Health Care" (2016). Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations. 22.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18478
Description
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Industrial & Labor Relations Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication.
A definitive version was subsequently published in August 2016 Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 69(4): 961–990 and can be found online: https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793916642761