Up for the challenge: Power motive congruence drives nurses to craft their jobs and experience well-being.

ABSTRACT: Job crafting is the behavior that employees engage in to create personally better fitting work environments, for example, by increasing challenging job demands. To better understand the driving forces behind employees' engagement in job crafting, we investigated implicit and explicit power motives. While implicit motives tend to operate at the unconscious, explicit motives operate at the unconscious level. We focused on power motives, as power is an agentic motive characterized by the need to influence your environment. Although power is relevant to job crafting in its entirety, in this study, we link it to increasing challenging job demands due to its relevance to job control, which falls under the umbrella of power. Using a cross-sectional design, we collected survey data from a sample o

SUBMITTER: Ghazzawi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11449283 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature