Overview

The APS hosts this activity with the Positive Psychology Interest Group (PPIG).

This webinar explores the concept of "job crafting", the process by which employees initiate proactive changes to enhance their wellbeing and engagement at work. It will introduce job crafting, examine the different types of job crafting, and subsequently explore its relationship with workplace wellbeing and its influence on motivation and engagement, and address how leaders and managers can facilitate job crafting in organisations.

This session aims to provide practical insights for enhancing work experiences through job crafting techniques, into how individuals proactively shape their work environment, aligning with core psychological principles of motivation, self-efficacy, and personal agency. Job crafting offers practitioners a practical and evidence-based approach to enhancing workplace satisfaction and reducing stress.

For those specialising in industrial-organisational psychology, job crafting is an important concept for understanding employee engagement, job satisfaction, performance, and other positive outcomes.  

Psychologists working in organisations can use job crafting principles to advise organisations on how they can better support individuals, teams, and organisations in creating more fulfilling and productive work environments.

Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

This webinar will be recorded. Access to the recording and presenter slides is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

APS CPD Approved

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process.

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Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this webinar, participants should be able to:

• recognise what job crafting is and its relationship with important individual and organisational outcomes,

• describe ways to facilitate job crafting in workplaces and organisations, and

• recognise limitations of job crafting.

Presenter(s)

Associate Professor Gavin Slemp

About the presenter(s)

Dr Gavin Slemp is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Wellbeing Science in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne.
Having earned his doctorate at Monash University, Gavin's research interests encompass ways to foster high-quality motivation and wellbeing in workplace and education settings, with a focus on job crafting, interpersonal behaviours, and employee health interventions, such as mindfulness and coaching.
Gavin's expertise in job crafting has been recognised through his recent award of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project research grant as lead Chief Investigator, examining job crafting and its impact on teacher wellbeing and retention. His work has been published in numerous prestigious journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Educational Psychology Review. To date, Gavin has published 3 books and over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters focusing on these areas.
Gavin serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, a British Psychological Society journal. He also recently served as guest co-editor for a special issue on job crafting and other proactive approaches to job design in the Journal of Business and Psychology, collaborating with Professor Arnold Bakker.