MZMORALE ZEROthe antithesis of employee engagement
DIRECTIVE 083 / GROWTH

PROTECT THE JOB DESCRIPTION

Employees were hired to perform the role, not to redesign the inconvenience out of it.

Keep tasks, relationships and workflows inside their approved boundaries. If employees begin changing how they work, whom they collaborate with or which demands they reduce, route the changes through formal redesign. Initiative is welcome after governance.

Primary: GROWTHCONTROLMEANING
RATIONALE
Job stability is easier to administer when improvements to the job remain the organization's exclusive property.
SUCCESS INDICATOR
Employees become highly capable at adapting themselves to the job while the job remains protected from adapting to them.
COMMON FAILURE
Allowing appropriate job crafting so employees can increase useful resources and challenges or reduce hindering demands without undermining essential role requirements.
STATUS
Canonical / approved

Reconstructed Handbook series.

THE UNFORTUNATE PART

Unfortunately, the research…

Claim

Job crafting is a proactive form of work redesign undertaken by employees. Meta-analytic evidence links several job-crafting dimensions with engagement, satisfaction and performance, although relationships differ across crafting strategies and outcomes.

Evidence

A meta-analysis of job crafting found meaningful relationships with individual differences, job characteristics and work outcomes, while also showing that different forms of crafting should not be treated as one uniform behavior.

Strength: Strong

Sources

The Directive is satire. The research summary is not. Evidence is stated separately and qualified to the underlying literature rather than treated as proof of the joke.

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