TITLE:
Digital Job Crafting: Scale Development and Validation
AUTHORS:
Xiaotun Chen, Qin Chen
KEYWORDS:
Digital Work Contexts, Digital Job Crafting, Digital Work Task Crafting, Digital Technology Use Crafting, Scale Development
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.12 No.6,
October
18,
2024
ABSTRACT: With the booming development of digital economy and digital technology, digital transformation has become a must for enterprises to achieve high-quality development. The extensive introduction of digital technology into the work field has led to significant changes in the requirements of work tasks, work styles and work scenarios, etc. However, the misfit between the digital level of employees, digital technologies and the requirements of digital work tasks has made it difficult for employees to be competent in digital work and adapt to the digital changes. Digital job crafting considers digital technology as a new element of the work environment. From the perspective of employees’ proactive adaptation and self-management, making positive adjustments to the characteristics of digital work tasks and the application of digital technology to realise the matching of employees-tasks-technology. In view of this, this study strictly follows the scale development paradigm, constructs the employee digital Job crafting scale. It contains 21 measurement items in four dimensions: digital work task crafting, relationship crafting, cognitive crafting and digital technology use crafting. And through SPSS26.0 and Amos28.0 software to conduct empirical research on the sample data of the formal research. In this way, the stability of the scale was further verified, and a scientific measurement tool was provided for the subsequent in-depth research.