Effectiveness of a Job Crafting Program for Alumni and Current Student Volunteer Employees of Ramkhamhaeng University
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This research article aims to study (1) explore the meaning of job crafting among volunteer employees, (2) develop a job crafting program for volunteer employees, and (3) compare the job crafting of volunteer employees before and after participating in the program. The research is Quasi-experimental research with interview and One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design method. This study consisted of three phases. The sample group experiment consists of 17 volunteer employees and 5 key informants who are alumni and current students of Ramkhamhaeng University. Research tools used in the study include structured in-depth interviews, a job crafting program, and a job crafting questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using mean, frequency, standard deviation, and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test.
Findings are as follows: (1) job crafting among volunteer employees refers to the adjustment of various aspects of their work to improve the outcome, and can be categorized into three components: task crafting, relation crafting, and cognitive crafting, (2) the job crafting program for volunteer employees consists of 3 stages, 9 part, 17 activities, totaling 6 hours, and (3) the average level of job crafting among volunteer employees after participating in the program was significantly higher than before, with a statistical significance level of .001.
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