• Crafting work-nonwork balance involving life domain boundaries: Development and validation of a novel scale across five countries 

      Kerksieck, Philipp; Brauchli, Rebecca; de Bloom, Jessica; Shimazu, Akihito; Kujanpää, Miika; Lanz, Madeleine; Bauer, Georg F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Ongoing developments, such as digitalization, increased the interference of the work and nonwork life domains, urging many to continuously manage engagement in respective domains. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent ...
    • The Forgotten Ones: Crafting for Meaning and for Affiliation in the Context of Finnish and Japanese Employees' Off-Job Lives 

      Kujanpää, Miika; Weigelt, Oliver; Shimazu, Akihito; Toyama, Hiroyuki; Kosenkranius, Merly; Kerksieck, Philipp; de Bloom, Jessica (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In an intensifying working life, it is important for employees to proactively shape their lives beyond work to create opportunities for satisfying personal needs. These efforts can be beneficial for creating and sustaining ...
    • Needs-based Off-job Crafting Across Different Life Domains and Contexts: Testing a Novel Conceptual and Measurement Approach 

      Kujanpää, Miika; Syrek, Christine; Tay, Louis; Kinnunen, Ulla; Mäkikangas, Anne; Shimazu, Akihito; Wiese, Christopher W.; Brauchli, Rebecca; Bauer, Georg F.; Kerksieck, Philipp; Toyama, Hiroyuki; de Bloom, Jessica (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Shaping off-job life is becoming increasingly important for workers to increase and maintain their optimal functioning (i.e., feeling and performing well). Proactively shaping the job domain (referred to as job crafting) ...
    • A new perspective on balancing life domains: work–nonwork balance crafting 

      Kerksieck, Philipp; Kujanpää, Miika; de Bloom, Jessica; Brauchli, Rebecca; Bauer, Georg F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Background: Self-initiated and proactive changes in working conditions through crafting are essential for shaping work and improving work-related well-being. Recently, the research stream of job crafting has been extended ...
    • Sustainable work through crafting 

      Mäkikangas, Anne; de Bloom, Jessica; Kerksieck, Philipp; Kujanpää, Miika (Chapter, 2024)
      In today’s knowledge and service economy and with the increasing trend towards multilocational work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, job redesign and self-management approaches (i.e. individuals actively shaping their own ...