Discussion
The goal of this study was to examine whether job crafting strategies of employees are related to more extra-role behavior as rated by the supervisor and whether this occurs through work engagement and flourishing. The findings of the present study suggested that the more individuals seek resources at work, the more engaged they are in their work and the more they flourish in their life. Simplifying one’s job does not seem to be an effective strategy as the more employees reduced job demands, the less engaged they were in their job, whereas their level of flourishing was unaffected. Seeking challenges did not have additional value in predicting either work engagement or flourishing. Furthermore, work engagement proved to have a strong positive relationship with work functioning that goes beyond formal job requirements. Specifically, the more engaged employees were, the higher the ratings they received from their supervisor regarding their creativity and contextual performance. Flourishing employees were perceived to be more creative but not to exhibit higher contextual performance by their supervisors. Thus, it seems that work engagement and flourishing form conditional experiences explaining the sequence through which job crafting relates to extra-role behavior.
