Job Characteristics

Meaningful Work
What does it mean for work to be meaningful and what can organizations do to help facilitate it? Read this umbrella summary to learn more.
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Job Crafting
In what ways do employees adapt their work tasks and environment? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about job crafting and its outcomes.
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Job Design
What is job design and what outcomes are associated with it? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about the task, knowledge, social, and work context characteristics that should be thought about when designing a job.
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Career Interests
What are career interests and how does the fit between one’s interests and job tasks relate to work behaviors and attitudes? Read this umbrella summary to learn about how career interests are categorized and measured and what research has to say.
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What Can Child Welfare Leaders Do to Improve Job Satisfaction?
What can child welfare leaders do to create a satisfied, productive workforce when the work is stressful, complex, and challenging? This QIC-Tip draws from our extensive collection of Umbrella Summaries to help answer this question.
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Counterproductive Work Behavior
What does research say about harmful employee behaviors? This umbrella summary describes the available evidence about counterproductive work behaviors.
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior
What does it mean to be a good organizational citizen? Read this summary to learn more about the outcomes and antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviors.
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Work-Family Conflict
What happens when employees face conflicting pressures from work and family? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about work-family conflict and how it relates to employee outcomes.
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Work-Family Enrichment
How can experiences at work and with family positively impact each other? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about work-family enrichment.
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Employee Fit
Fit: What is person-environment fit? How does it relate to recruiting outcomes and employee attitudes and behaviors? Read this summary to learn more.
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