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abstract

Building upon the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this longitudinal study examined whether job crafting behaviors (i.e. increasing structural and social job resources and increasing challenges) predict less job boredom and more work engagement. We also tested the reverse causation effects of job boredom and work engagement on job crafting and the dynamics between the three job crafting behaviors over time. We employed a two-wave, three-year panel design and included 1630 highly educated Finnish employees from a broad spectrum of occupations in various organizations. Our results indicated that seeking challenges in particular negatively predicted job boredom and positively predicted work engagement. Seeking challenges fueled other job crafting behaviors, which, in their turn, predicted seeking more challenges over time, thus supporting the accumulation of resources. Job boredom negatively predicted increasing structural resources, whereas work engagement positively predicted increasing both structural and social resources. These findings suggest that seeking challenges at work enhances employee work engagement, prevents job boredom, and generates other job crafting behaviors. Conversely, job boredom seems to impede job crafting.

4. Discussion

The current study was the first to longitudinally examine the relations between job crafting behaviors, job boredom, and work engagement. All in all, the results indicate that seeking more challenges in particular may increase work engagement, decrease job boredom and boost other types of crafting behaviors accordingly. As regards reversed effects, work engagement increased the likelihood of future job crafting, whereas job boredom reduced such behaviors. Thus, voluntarily seeking more challenges may be an effective way for highly educated employees to sustain their well-being and proactivity.